Your editorial (10 March) makes the same old mistake with the assumption that Nigel Farage is damaging the Reform brand. The party’s followers don’t care, don’t read critical analysis of his behaviour, won’t even know about the spat with Rupert Lowe and aren’t swayed by unseemly behaviour or arguing in public. It’s all perfectly acceptable, even normal, for them. They just need to know someone backs their argument that foreigners are the reason for their woes. Their undying passion for the Farage cause will only get stronger. And it will spread, whether you see the logic or not.
Jonathan Howarth
Manchester
• Nigel Farage can have his fanclub and build a movement to get what he wants (as with Brexit), but not lead a political party. Ukip collapsed as soon as he ditched it. Reform is a dog’s breakfast of Brexiters, protest voters, ex-Tories and the far right that threatens to turn on him. Farage’s chief appeal to the media has been to drag British politics further to the right and satisfy its obsession with being entertained by political “characters”. His autocratic approach may yet destroy Reform in an internal feud or swallow up a floundering Tory party, but enormous damage has already been done to the country as a whole.
Derrick Cameron
Stoke-on-Trent
