{"id":1098561,"date":"2026-07-19T10:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1098561\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:36:22","slug":"the-questions-continue-as-reform-uk-blinks-under-an-unwelcome-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1098561\/","title":{"rendered":"The questions continue as Reform UK blinks under an unwelcome spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But inside the party\u2019s sleek Millbank tower HQ, turf wars abound. In some quarters, concerns were aired that Farage \u2014 irked by the many intrusions on his private life and funding sources \u2014 was happier as a one-man band with a fan club at rallies across the country than a leader saddled with the discipline of policy announcements and grids. From high twenties in polls earlier this year, Reform is now on around 25 points, only five or six points clear of Labour and the Tories, each on around 19-20 points. Anti-Reform tactical voting means that it has struggled to pull by election successes. And a highly personal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/politics\/nigel-farage-elon-musk-andy-burnham-keir-starmer-tesla-b1283517.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">falling out with Rupert Lowe<\/a> led to the formation of Restore Britain, to the right of the Reform, slicing into its vote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But inside the party\u2019s sleek Millbank tower HQ, turf wars abound. In some quarters, concerns were aired that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1098562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[87182,296079,33,13,12,384,34066,386,85733,14],"class_list":["post-1098561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-by-election","tag-clacton","tag-elections","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-reform","tag-reform-uk","tag-special-report","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116946205828022263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}