All is not well in Reform HQ. On Tuesday, Nigel Farage broadcast a statement where he claimed that Sir Keir Starmer’s rhetoric – dubbing Reform’s plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain ‘racist’ – risked inciting violence against his party’s activists and candidates. This morning, the party’s head of policy Zia Yusuf took to the airwaves to fume:
By all means take issue with the policy… But using language like ‘battle’… ‘enemy’… ‘threat’… in a world of social media… we’re all for free speech but no matter how much you want to uphold free speech, incitement of violence… there is nothing to excuse that.
The party has used the recent death of US activist Charlie Kirk to suggest that Farage and Reform activists could be in similar danger in the UK – with Yusuf insisting: ‘If anything was t