Nigel Farage detonated a bomb under the two main parties and their pledges… it’s grim news for Tories especially

Nigel’s nuke

FOR two weeks we have endured a mostly dull and petty election campaign. That all changed with a bang yesterday.

Nigel Farage detonated a bomb under the two main parties and all their pledges, squabbles and gaffes.

It looks like grim news for the Tories especially.

Reform’s new leader and Clacton ­candidate will try to make our out-of-control immigration central to the July 4 election — along with the sense that everything in Britain is broken.

Both will resonate with millions of angry voters disenchanted with the Tories but not sold on Labour.

As ever with Farage’s parties, though, what are his detailed solutions?

Rhetoric and complaint is easy.

How would Reform fix our problems — and get the Whitehall machine to co-operate?

There will doubtless be rows now over whether Farage gets to debate with Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer on TV.

It would certainly be box office.

The Tories meanwhile will argue that voting for Reform simply ensures ­Labour an even bigger majority to force through policies Farage and his supporters will detest, especially on immigration and closer ties with Brussels.

A fair point . . . though Farage insists that he will slash Labour’s vote too.

And that he has only been tempted back by a voter “revolt” he is sensing against BOTH the big parties — which the polls and pundits haven’t yet detected.

He may be right.

If not, he may simply have handed Starmer a massive majority on a plate.

Bomb U-turn

OUR need for a nuclear deterrent has been constant and unwavering since our enemies first got the bomb in the 1950s.

What HAS wavered is the support for it from Keir Starmer and his Labour front bench.

It is hard to reconcile him as a global security strongman when until 2019 he campaigned to install Jeremy Corbyn, co-founder of West-hating peacenik rabble Stop The War, as Prime Minister.

Plus, the most strident of the anti-nuke brigade now sitting alongside the Labour leader is David Lammy — who could be our Foreign Secretary in less than five weeks.

Have they all changed their tune, suddenly alive to the realities of deterrence and the global threat?

Or would they lobby Starmer, as PM, to change tack?

This question could not be more crucial. Nothing trumps national security.

Fool for love

GOOD luck to Joey Essex, first celeb to seek a partner on Love Island.

Asked once to name the country bordering Wales, the loveable dimbo said: “London?”

Thank heaven ITV flew him out to the set in the Med.

He might have tried to drive.