Did internal tensions deny Reform an even bigger victory?

The local election results reveal certain anomalies that carry a warning for Nigel Farage and Reform.

Reform UK's Greater Lincolnshire victorious mayoral candidate Dame Andrea Jenkyns with Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice (via Alamy/ 3B5CPH6)

Any day on which Labour, the Tories and the Duke of Sussex all suffer crushing defeats can only be classified as red letter, making last Thursday a celebratory date in the calendar. There was an almost Old Testament flavour to many of the defeats, a smiting of the Amalekites on a scale not witnessed since biblical times.