Anxious viewers tuned into Question Time last night to watch live coverage of the ongoing Nigel Farage crisis. Quite a week for the Ukip leader. Up and down. In and out. And back in again. His pitch for a Westminster power-base imploded on election day. And he promptly quit, as promised. But his resignation fared no better than his parliamentary campaign. His withdrawal was rejected. Won’t anything go right for him?
He explained to a glum audience in Uxbridge that after losing South Thanet he retreated to ‘a darkened room’ to examine his future.
‘I was going to walk out of there a free man but they dragged me back!’ This jaunty account received not a bat’s squeak of laughter from the crowd. Chairman Dimbleby asked him about the insults recently flung by an envious henchman.
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