DAN HODGES: What IS going on with Nigel Farage? It’s the question on the lips of everyone in Westminster amid growing speculation he will not lead Reform at the next general election. This is what insiders are telling me…

A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to a senior Reform insider about the unseemly social media spat between the party’s economic spokesman Robert Jenrick and its self-styled shadow home secretary Zia Yusuf. Yusuf had angrily slapped down Jenrick for an intervention he had made on his favoured territory of immigration.

What was behind the fracas, I asked. ‘The war to succeed Nigel is starting,’ they said. ‘There’s a growing view inside the party that he won’t be leading us into the next election. He’s looking worn down. People are starting to plan.’

The headlines over the past week have obviously

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