Former Conservative Party chairman and Brexit negotiator David Davis has written to the government to highlight the outsize risk of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage being the target of a “copycat attack” after the funding for his police protection team was slashed.

The UK government cut the funding for Nigel Farage’s close protection team by 75 per cent last month, his Reform party claimed this week as it pointed to the potential harm being incited by senior ministers calling Mr Farage “racist”, “worse than racist”, and implying a link with Adolf Hitler, although the last point was quickly retracted.

Now, senior Conservative parliamentarian Sir David Davis has written to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood — one of those government ministers who made those lurid allegations against Farage t

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