Nigel Farage has hit back at one of his own MPs after he said Reform UK remains a "protest party led by the Messiah" under his leadership. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe questioned Farage's approach to leading the party and said he would need the "right people" around him to "deliver the goods".

Reform UK's Rupert Lowe has said it is "too early to know" whether Nigel Farage will be a good Prime Minister in a series of unprecedented remarks about his own party leader. Lowe, who had sat in the European Parliament under Farage in the Brexit Party,

Nigel Farage has hit back at Rupert Lowe after his fellow Reform MP said he was not sure if his “messianic qualities” made him a good leader. Great Yarmouth MP Mr Lowe said in an interview that it was “too early to know whether Nigel will deliver”.

Nigel Farage hit back at Rupert Lowe as Reform UK descended into civil war today. He insisted Reform is not a "protest party" and swiped that Mr Lowe would not have had a "cat's chance in hell" of becoming an MP without him.