Sometimes politics throws up a happening of quite exquisite irony. Lee Anderson suspending the whip from Rupert Lowe, his party’s most outspoken MP, a year after the very same thing happened to him is such a moment. Poacher turned gamekeeper indeed.
Anderson will of course know that Rishi Sunak’s casting of him into outer darkness did not go well – for Sunak or the Tories. The question we must wrestle with now is how the exile of Lowe is going to go for Reform.
In an article written for the Sunday Telegraph today, Nigel Farage himself has admitted there is likely to be a cost, observing: ‘If the last general election taught us anything, it is that the public does not like political parties that engage in constant infighting.
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