Runners and riders: next Reform leader

Well, that didn’t last long. Just 19 days after Nigel Farage and Elon Musk were snapped beaming together at Mar-a-Lago, the bromance is already over. Sad! It seems that the Tesla billionaire didn’t take too kindly to Farage’s (mild) rebuke of his call to release Tommy Robinson from prison. Just hours after Farage praised Musk on the BBC, the latter took to – where else? – X to declare the end of their short-lived friendship. ‘The Reform Party needs a new leader’, Musk declared. ‘Farage doesn’t have what it takes’. So much for loyalty eh?

At present, it looks like Musk is out on his own on this one. None of the four other Reform MPs in parliament have echoed the call for Farage to quit, with supportive voices in the media quick to back his decision to distance the party from Robinson. Still, in the unlikely event that a putsch did take place, Mr S has gathered up all the likely runners and riders – and given them odds too:

Rupert Lowe – 2/1
The darling of the grassroots, the Hon.