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BITTER Ukip boss Nigel Farage alleged yesterday that “bent” postal votes were to blame for his party’s latest by-election flop.
Ukip candidate John Bickley polled 6,487, over 10,000 adrift of Labour’s Jim McMahon.
Mr Farage cited “impeccable sources” for his suggestion that the “perverse result” was the result of ballot-rigging.
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
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
