Fiscal recklessness aside, it’s the super-rich who’ll benefit from Reform UK policies

Nigel Farage speaking in Las Vegas last week. It is no fantasy to suggest that he could become prime minister. Photograph: Ian Maule/Getty

For a politician who has done more than most to shape Britain’s current challenges, nothing seems to stick to Nigel Farage. Not the chaos of the post-Brexit referendum years; or the contradiction of his closed-border English nationalism combined with a fondness for courting nomad capitalists from Malaysia to Mar-a-Lago.

This is, of course, because the Reform UK leader is the agitator-in-chief. He has prodded successive prime ministers into action, but has not been in the driving seat himself. Things though are changing.