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Reform UK announced a new policy over the weekend. If elected, the party said it will ensure that all constituencies voting for Reform are exempt from housing migrants in detention camps, and that all such camps will instead be built in seats that vote for “open borders” parties, primarily the Greens.

While there appeared to be an element of flippancy, this was not a gaffe but a fully premeditated media campaign, complete with an interactive postcode search feature on the party’s website telling users whether their constituency would be the site of one of these camps (based on the likelihood of it switching to the Greens at the next election).

There was outrage, including from Conservatives, and the gimmick conveniently distracts from a story the party has been keen to avoid commenting on (and so it bears repeating here: it has emerged that, before becoming an MP, Nigel Farage received a £5m “personal gift” from Christopher Harborne, a cryptocurrency investor based in…