Dominic Cummings has warned Nigel Farage that Whitehall will break the law to prevent Reform winning power. Speaking on The Spectator‘s Quite Right! podcast, Cummings said: ‘They’ll leak medical records, they’ll leak tax records. They’ll bug his phone and leak that. They’ll do anything that they need to’.

The former Vote Leave campaign boss and ex-chief aide to Boris Johnson said that Farage’s political opponents were determined to learn from their mistakes in the Brexit referendum – and ensure that Reform doesn’t win the next election. He told Michael Gove and Madeline Grant:

‘The people around Starmer and all through the upper echelons of the Whitehall system are looking at Trump. They’re looking across Europe, and they’re saying to themselves: The lesson is to strike early and strike hard and not let........

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