Reform UK has now admitted that the party’s candidate for the crucial Makerfield by-election was Facebook friends with a far-right fascist leader. But the harsh reality is that Nigel Farage and his party simply appear indifferent to the apparent views of some of their members.
The fact that Robert Kenyon was busy cleaning up and deleting his social media ahead of his formal announcement as Reform’s candidate suggests the party was all too aware of the fallout which was always going to come.