Burnham is laughing to top of the polls while Greens and Reform battle it out

Reform UK reported Green Party leader Zack Polanski to the police over a post on Instagram (Picture: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire)

It’s been a rough few months for Nigel Farage, for reasons that have generated plenty of coverage in the media.

There’s the £5 million ‘gift’ from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. The support from convicted fraudster George Cottrell. The two separate parliamentary standards investigations. The decision to force a by-election in Clacton, which seemed to quickly backfire.

But arguably, things have been nearly as tough for Green Party...