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POLICE across the country have been inundated with anxious calls this week, boroughs missing their bigot quotients, villages bereft of idiots.
It looked set to be a mystery for the ages until Paul Nuttall popped up on the radio like a particularly unwelcome turd in a children’s swimming pool and suddenly the veils were parted.
Yes it could mean only one thing — the annual numpty-fest that is the Ukip conference is once again in full swing.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Farage and other Reform-ers keep pointing to Dubai’s immigration policy – but there migrants make up most of the population and do all the work without any rights, muses SOLOMON HUGHES
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
