Nigel Farage is now the bookies’ favourite to be next party leader to be dumped

While Nigel Farage’s focus today will be on the Clacton by-election, the bookies believe he is the next party leader most likely to be through the exit door, after a tumultuous few months that has seen him lurch from one scandal to the next.

Farage, 62, is now priced at 2/1 to be the next major party leader to depart.

It comes as his party’s poll ratings tumble, with Reform now finding itself trailing both the Labour Party and Tories.

Farage’s stunt in quitting as the MP for Clacton, only to re-stand, has also spectacularly backfired with all major parties boycotting the vote. The Reform leader has been criticised for quitting given that he was undergoing a standards committee investigation into a £5million donation he received from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne which he failed to properly declare. Should he win re-election, the investigation will restart.

His personal approval ratings have also collapsed amid Reform’s troubles.

Given Farage’s troubles, the bookies reckon there is a 33 per cent probability of Farage exiting next.