How Nigel Farage Will Lose the Next General Election

Reform's extended tantrum over losing the Gorton and Denton by-election reveals exactly why they are on course for an even bigger defeat at the next general election

I’ve been predicting for some time now that the wheels would soon start to fall off the Nigel Farage project.

Now it finally seems to be happening.

Reform’s heavy defeat in the Gorton and Denton by-election has been followed by an extended temper tantrum, in which Farage has sought to claim that he was somehow “cheated” from victory by a shadowy coalition of Islamists and workshy scroungers.

The reality, as contained in some startling new data published this week, is entirely different.