But a pre-election pact is not in the Conservatives’ gift, while the price that I’m told Farage would extract after an election is enough to have senior Tories crying into their martinis: Nigel number one, the boss, the leader of whatever shape the new right would take and, potentially, the country.
Some laughed at Nigel Farage, but he’s got the Tories where he wants them and he could now be Prime Minister NIGEL FARAGE famously told gawping members of the European Parliament after the Brexit vote: “Well, you’re not laughing at me now, are you?”.
And while they were whipped to cackle and heckle when the Reform boss stood up at Prime Minister’s Questions last week, the wall of fake laughter from Labour MPs rang very hollow.
Add to that a wholesale U-turn on Brexit, with talk that only AI and our services industry are off the negotiating table for closer alignment with Brussels, it’s going to take more than deportation videos and Cabinet pep talks for Labour to stem the Reform bleed.
While he is still getting used to the bear pit that is the Commons chamber, giving his opponents enough pauses to shout him down, it’s starting to look like Farage could have the last laugh yet again.
