Reform UK Salisbury candidate says Putin 'seemed very good'

[Emrys]

4. Yeah, I think their impact will be more in terms of depleting the Tory vote in certain seats,

rather than winning outright.

All along, it's not been so much Reform/UKIP's policies and candidates in themselves that have presented a threat to other parties as their fear of having "their" votes poached, driven by polling.

What happens if any of them do win seats is another matter, of course. The UK Parliament isn't as tolerant of the sort of high jinks and disruptiveness Farage likes to get up to as the EU Pariament was. In the past, when UKIP and its ilk have won council seats, let alone Westminster ones, they've usually imploded within a couple of years.