Bickering Reform is a turn-off for voters

WHAT happens to people who go into politics? Do their egos suddenly explode out of control? I ask while watching the self-destruction of Reform. It makes me wonder what rogue MP Rupert Lowe and former deputy party leader Ben Habib actually want.

- James Whale

Both have come to verbal blows with Reform leader Nigel Farage in some of the nastiest in-fighting this side of the Tories.

And it was all going so well. Indeed, it still is. Polling last week, as my colleague Patrick O'Flynn revealed, showed levels of support for Reform holding steady in the mid-20s, percentage-wise. That puts the party level with Labour and ahead of Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives.