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Kate Devlin, Whitehall Editor
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Reform donations sting leaves party reeling |
Downbeat. Miserable. Just two of the words observers have used to describe Reform’s annual conference today.
After a summer that included weeks of controversy, calls from senior Reform politicians for Nigel Farage to step back, a by-election and a probe into a £5m donation, Reform was keen to use the event to show it was back in business.
However, those hopes were scuppered by an undercover report broadcast by Channel 4 News, which led to allegations Reform breached political donation rules by having polling paid for by an overseas company. The party denies any wrongdoing.
In response the party has been reported to police and two Reform officials James Orr and Dan Jukes have stepped down.
Not quite deputy heads rolling, as the political cliche goes (the party’s deputy leader is Richard Tice). But some within Reform are reeling nonetheless at the loss of two senior party figures.
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Nigel Farage will probably survive this latest scandal but he cannot survive the dysfunctionality of his own party – and it could destroy Reform’s hopes of winning an election, as David Maddox reports
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The end of Nigel Farage is nigh… again
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John Rentoul, Chief Political Commentator
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John Rentoul, Chief Political Commentator
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Mired in a new donations scandal, the Reform leader has become the Sisyphus of British politics, enjoying the success of pushing the rock up the mountain, only to crash again.
The Channel 4 sting, appearing to show members of Farage’s inner team conspiring to accept illegal foreign donations, accelerates a decline that was already well under way.
Above all, there is the impression given by Reform of a party of rank amateurs run by people who are too rich, too arrogant and too self-absorbed even to run a party conference without long queues and chaotic delays.
It is not the potential illegality that will do for Farage. Ultimately, I do not believe that the British electorate will tolerate the incompetence.
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