There is a simple fact about Nigel Farage that those splitting Reform UK in support of Rupert Lowe should keep in mind.

I have spoken and written a great deal about the injustice done to Rupert Lowe and damage to Reform by Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf trumping up complaints against him. The magnitude of both cannot be underestimated.

Mr Lowe wrote on Thursday: "Egos must be parked to resolve this. I am trying to do that by reaching out, again.

Rupert Lowe has asked Nigel Farage to “have dinner” with him after he lost the Reform UK whip following allegations of threatening violence towards the party chairman.

Dame Andrea Jenkyns also speaks to Sky News about wanting to become the party's first ever mayor and her experience of domestic abuse.

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Farage warns there is ‘no way back’ for Rupert Lowe as Reform UK civil war deepens - The civil war dominating Reform UK has deepened, with leader Nigel Farage warning there is ‘no way back’ for Rupert

Tech tycoon Elon Musk is considering backing a rival to Reform UK led by Rupert Lowe, it has emerged. Musk, who briefly flirted with bankrolling Farage's populist party, suddenly took aim at the Clacton MP after the pair sparred over ex-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson.

Labour is down one from the week before to 24%, while the Tories are unchanged on 21% in the poll of 2,686 British adults carried out on Wednesday. It comes on a week that has seen Reform at the centre of a civil war after Great Yarmouth MP Mr Lowe was suspended over allegations about his conduct, which he denies.