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Hugo Rifkind

The real reason Ukip are tearing each other apart

2 March 2017

3:00 PM

2 March 2017

3:00 PM

If the British establishment really wants to troll Ukip, then I suppose it ought to give Douglas Carswell a knighthood for blocking Nigel Farage’s knighthood.

He says he didn’t, of course, and I don’t see how he could have done. Farage, though, clearly thinks he did, and his wrath about this is the most fun thing to have happened in British politics for ages.

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