‘Posturing’: Farage’s Reform-quake so far limited to small acts of ‘war on woke’

Reform promised much to voters and now runs 8bn worth of public services. After three weeks, what has party accomplished?

When Nigel Farage held a victory lap of England after his mammoth local elections win on 1 May, he was characteristically bullish about Reform UK's plan to shake up town halls.

The party would send in Elon Musk-style budget-slashing units, he said, while promising to turf out asylum seekers and any civil servants working on climate change or diversity.