Candy's £1m gift makes it a good day for 'Uncle Nigel'

These are happy days for Nigel Farage.

- John Grace

OK, so Donald Trump might have gone a little cold on him - the Donald's apparatchiks have been letting it be known that the president-elect regards Nige as an eccentric fanboy, basking in the reflected glory. But back in the UK things are hunky-dory. The Tories are barely alive and Labour hasn't gotten off to the best of starts, to put it kindly.

A country where people are short of hope and feeling that nothing really works is the Reform leader's type of country. Farage has no real solutions to anything. A call to cut immigration to zero won't begin to address the systemic problems within the economy. It's just a soundbite to lure people in. He is the Unthinking Man's Thinking Man.

And it's all beginning to pay off as Reform is now ahead of Labour and the Tories in the polls. It may be a long shot, but many serious people are coming round to the view that Nige is more likely to be the next prime minister than Kemi Badenoch - providing he can find more than 330 credible Reform candidates.