When I told an ex-editor of this magazine that I was planning to write about why I’m voting for Reform he didn’t react as I expected. ‘For God’s sake, don’t write another of those more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger pieces,’ he said. ‘Make it a furious, tub-thumping endorsement of Nigel and his gang.’

When it comes to the ‘War on Woke’, Farage really means it – Rishi is all talk and no pedal pushers

I should say at once that this wasn’t Boris Johnson – although he does want Nigel Farage to win in Clacton, apparently.