IIt is an understatement to say that this has not been Reform’s week – and not just because the party can’t seem to decide on its position regarding Ukraine, Vladmir Putin, and Donald Trump.
To recap: last Wednesday (5 March) Rupert Lowe, one of the party’s five MPs, gave an interview to the Daily Mail in which he questioned “whether Nigel will deliver the goods” and said Reform needed to “change from being a protest party led by the Messiah”. This did not go down well. “We’ve got a lot of development to do, but we’re absolutely not a protest party,” was Nigel Farage’s response the following day.
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