As Zia Yusuf claims that ‘extreme’ criticism of his hard-right party amounts to incitement, Sean O’Grady reminds the home affairs spokesman that his murdered colleague would never have played the victim card like this

It has been a difficult time for Reform. A kind of malaise has hung about the party since the local elections.

It is clear that there remains a deeply troubling undercurrent of homophobia within parts of the Reform UK party