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WASHED-UP singer Bob Geldof was accused by a pro-EU campaigner yesterday of mocking fishermen concerned for their livelihoods on the Thames.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage was aboard a small trawler with the fishermen in a flotilla to highlight the threat they say is posed by EU fishing quotas.
Then Sir Bob and a mob of his supporters approached in another boat to taunt and start a “war of words.”
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
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
