The racists are out of the woodworks openly: several Reform candidates and party officials have been recorded making statements considered out of bounds in electoral politics, and have been forced to withdraw, though encouraged to contest as independents. Those who do not find Sunak ‘authentically’ British and used words to describe him that are banished from public life find in Farage their true representative. Pictures of party activists in ‘white power’ t-shirts and other neo-Nazi accoutrements are circulating. But this is not straightforward either: its opposition to low emission zones, to climate science, and to Muslims, and support to Putin and Covid and other conspiracy theories, has found a sprinkling of support outside its main demographic. In the tune of “some of my best friends are…”, Reform has fielded a handful of non-white candidates of Indian, Pakistani, African, Tamil, Sri Lankan, Muslim, Sikh and Hindu backgrounds.