I f there was a moment which illustrated how Nigel Farage has completely lost his political touch, it was when he appeared on his GB News show on Tuesday evening to proclaim: “I don't go with the consensus that Trump is going to get smashed.”

Within hours, the results were coming in for the US midterms with Donald Trump ’s Republican Party suffering catastrophic – and almost unprecedented – levels of humiliation and defeat .

Even Republican strongholds like Kansas and Texas fell to the Democrats as they swept to big majorities in both the House and the Senate.

While Americans turned their back on “the Donald” and his war with Iran in their millions, his old mate Mr Farage was apparently still willing to stand up for him.

Farage and Trump in happier times (Instagram)

It was probably not a huge coincidence that polling in the UK has shown that the British public have fallen out of love with Reform UK, too.

The YouGov poll this week showed that two-party politics is back, except that it is the old contest…