The dog that didn’t bark in the night.
You can normally set your watches by Reform. It’s a rare Monday morning in which Nigel Farage doesn’t pop up somewhere in central London to give a press conference.
Even when he has nothing new to announce, he usually has no shame in saying something he’s said before many times. He likes the attention. Makes him feel valued. Satisfies his rampant narcissism. Speaking in a Commons statement with only a few MPs present on either side of the chamber doesn’t touch the sides.
So you would have thought that this Monday of all Mondays Nige would have called his weekly presser. Because there’s so much he must want to talk about. The allegations of electoral fraud in his Clacton constituency. The fallout from Nathan Gill, Reform’s erstwhile leader in Wales, taking bribes to speak on behalf of the Russians.
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