Despite beating Labour in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election and toppling a host of Conservative councils though, he said he is sceptical that Farage and his party can sustain their success over a long period.

Farage’s Reform UK is soaring in the polls—and doing better at the ballot box—as voters lose patience with slow economic growth and high immigration.

The upstart Reform UK party has emerged as a serious contender in British politics. The anti-immigrant populist movement has overtaken the main Conservative opposition to jostle with the ruling Labour Party for the lead in opinion polls,