Reform’s civil war blows up again

Oh dear, it looks like the civil war engulfing Reform UK is showing no sign of simmering down.

On Friday, the political party currently leading in the polls went into complete meltdown after it announced that it had reported one of its MPs, Rupert Lowe, to the police and was suspending the whip. Party chairman Zia Yusuf and chief whip Lee Anderson alleged that they had received complaints about serious bullying from Lowe, and accused him of making ‘threats of physical violence against our Party Chairman.’ For his part, Lowe has completely denied the allegations which he says are ‘untrue and false’ and says he is seeking legal advice. He also argued that it was ‘no surprise’ that the party had made this statement after he had asked ‘reasonable and constructive questions of Nigel and the Reform structure.’ Earlier in the week, Lowe told the Daily Mail that he ‘didn’t know’ if Nigel Farage would make a good prime minister.