To the parties of opposition, about whom some rather interesting stories have emerged. The Financial Times has reported today that Nigel Farage has told his donors that he expects Reform UK to do an election deal with the Tories. The report describes how a donor claimed the Reform leader thought a pact with Kemi Badenoch’s lot could be done if it was on his terms, while an associate who met with Farage recently insisted the Clacton MP thought a deal was inevitable. But those willing the two groups to put aside their differences and warmly embrace may be feeling disappointed today, after both sides have publicly stated they are opposed to an electoral pact.

Farage was quick to take to Twitter to shoot down the FT story, fuming it was ‘false’ before adding: ‘After 14 years of dishonesty

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