Is Nigel Farage losing his grip on Reform UK?

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  This is the Guardian today.

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  Is Nigel Farage still the right man to lead Reform uk?

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  For Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party, it's felt for months like the only way is up.

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  People do think that reform is just for older people, and it's not.

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  There are enough voters in Britain now for us to win the general election

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  without changing a single person's mind.

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  The populist outfit was just four years old when it won five seats at last year's general election.

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  And this year it even surged to the top of some national polls.

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  For the first time in British political history,

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  Nigel Farage and the Reform Party have topped the national polls.

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  But now the party is having its first major wobble with a very public spat between Farage

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  and One of his MPs,

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  Rupert Lowe criticized his boss's leadership,

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  then found himself the target of misconduct allegations.

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  We have a dramatic breaking news story and it's this a short while ago.

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  Reform UK has announced

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  that an investigation has been launched into the Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth,

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  Rupert Lowe.

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  The party yesterday said it had suspended its mp, Rupert Lowe, and referred him to the police.

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  After an unexpectedly large backlash to the treatment of Lowe,

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