Reform UK's 'masculine image' risks alienating female voters and is leaving Nigel Farage's party with a 'woman problem', according to one of its top board members.Gawain Towler, Reform's former head of communications who is now on the party's governing board, issued the warning following the Makerfield by-election result.Despite Reform's hopes of running Andy Burnham close in Thursday's contest, the Labour politician beat Reform candidate Robert Kenyon by more than 9,000 votes.During the by-election campaign, Mr Kenyon came under fire for his past social media comments, including an offensive post about Welsh broadcaster Carole Vorderman.But Mr Farage dismissed the previous remarks of Mr Kenyon, a local plumber, as 'a few laddish things', which were 'posted a decade ago'.In a post on his Substack after the by-election result was announced, Mr Towler decried Mr Kenyon and Reform's decision not to issue an apology.He also said Makerfield 'must be the wake-up call' as he warned Reform was 'addressing one half of the electorate as though the other half were not in the room'.'The woman problem has a number attached now, and a lost seat behind it,' he wrote, as he described how Reform-friendly female voters had failed to back the party in Makerfield due to Mr Kenyon's past comments. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage pictured with the party's Makerfield by-election candidate Robert Kenyon on polling day