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HEALTH unions vowed to take the fight to Nigel Farage yesterday after he cynically dropped the Leave campaign’s commitment to give the NHS an extra £350 million a week under Brexit.
Just an hour after the vote to leave the EU was announced, the Ukip leader said the official campaign had made “a mistake” in promising the funding.
The promise was even painted on a battle bus which carried Boris Johnson and Michael Gove to anti-EU rallies around the country.
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
The Gala’s core message of working-class solidarity offers renewed hope and provides the antidote to the anti-worker policies of Reform UK, argues IAN LAVERY MP
