Get the sledgehammers boys - we be going a hunting and we have Rupert Lowe on speed-dial - gotta love dat man .... Ben Habib, the former Reform deputy leader pushed out in late 2024, who is now in a legal dispute with Harborne, believes his ex-leader is “facing an existential threat and that is in the hands of the parliamentary standards commissioner” and says Reform “does seem to be having a real problem with it”. “I don’t think he necessarily would win a byelection [in Clacton]. Restore will happily take him on,” Habib said. Rob Ford, a Manchester politics academic who co-authored a book on the rise of the radical right, thinks Farage is unlikely to step out of the political fray willingly – and that, if he does so, it would be a “total mess” for the party, with Lowe and Restore Britain probably the main beneficiary. “I think there would be a big, big argument in Reform, which, if Lowe ticked up in the polls, would only intensify,” he said. https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/05/nigel-farage-reform-uk-speculation-future
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