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Can Reform survive the rift between Farage and Lowe?

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