A Reform UK without Nigel Farage used to be unthinkable. Not any more | Gaby Hinsliff

The scandals are building, his touch perhaps not quite what it was. And, most of all, his party rivals are beginning to sense an opportunity

Nigel Farage didn’t know. He wasn’t told.

Sure, he was right there at the table when the undercover reporter he believed to be a rich American’s son spelled out very clearly how he hoped to channel his father’s money to Reform, in ways that certainly don’t sound too lawful.

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist

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