Daily Mail columnist Stephen Glover argues that a Channel 4 News sting targeting Reform UK aides has damaged both Reform and the wider effort to remove Labour from power, and calls for the Tories and Reform to strike an electoral pact. He is critical of Nigel Farage for allowing inexperienced aides to be caught out, but argues the party's support base is too broad to collapse entirely, and warns that Tories celebrating Reform's troubles are mistaken, since Labour under Andy Burnham stands to gain most from any Reform decline.

The article details how Cambridge theology academic James Orr and 30-year-old aide Dan Jukes were suspended after being filmed apparently seeking donations from a fake foreign billionaire, part of a wider circle of young, inexperienced Farage aides that also includes press chief Ed Sumner and George Cottrell, whose mother's £500,000 donation to Reform is under police investigation. Glover cites polling showing Reform was over ten points ahead of Labour a year ago but that Labour has now edged a few points ahead of Reform, while the Tories under Kemi Badenoch have made only modest gains, leading him to conclude that only a Tory-Reform pact can prevent Labour from being re-elected.