Saturday Essay Farage cast out ‘contemptible’ Rupert Lowe. Now, his party is raining on Reform’s parade

In the centre of Ashton-in-Makerfield, a local man in his mid-20s cannot disguise his disgust at Left-wing campaigners handing out anti-Reform leaflets. His anger, however, has been provoked more by the broader politics of the leafleters than by their singling out of Reform, of which, it transpires, he is no supporter.