This hints that Reform may have gained votes from people who may have otherwise spolied their ballots or abstained from taking part in the election altogether. If Mr Farage managed to persuade enough apathetic individuals to cast a ballot in favour of his party's candidate,

Watch again as Nigel Farage held Reform UK’s “biggest-ever” rally in Birmingham on Friday (28 March), launching the party’s local election campaign.The party has claimed it was “the biggest ever launch rally in modern British political history”,

But there is little normal about Reform UK. Earlier this month, Westminster was gripped by the war of words being played out on social media between party leader Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe, one of Reform’s four other MPs.