Inside Reform: Laura Kuenssberg follows Farage’s party as it experiences the glare of scrutiny

Yet what Farage has achieved in the past year with Reform, the self-styled “people’s army” he leads, is off the charts. For decades he’s had influence, but it’s been exercised from the sidelines. Now, with successive opinion polls putting his party ahead of Labour and the Conservatives, he poses a grave threat to the two political tribes who have passed power back and forth between them as voters saw fit, for 100 years.