Nigel Farage has vowed to make sweeping spending cuts before introducing tax cuts if Reform get elected into government. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Nigel Farage’s economic policies are neurasthenically inconsistent, but he has opened the door to a debate we need to have about whether Gordon Brown’s settlement for the Bank of England is fit for purpose, says Eliot Wilson

Nigel Farage is a practised veteran at grabbing the headlines with a provocative-sounding but ultimately empty remark. Speaking to Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain recently , he raised the tenure of the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, and the institution’s independence from government.

Exuding his usual beery bonhomie, the Reform UK leader suggested that, if he became Prime Minister, he might seek to

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