内容摘要："It's weird because you come home and there's not really a guidebook and it's quite reassuring having someone come through the door."

"It's weird because you come home and there's not really a guidebook and it's quite reassuring having someone come through the door."

Lowe has advocated mass deportations, something Farage doesn't think is practical or popular.Lowe has praised the jailed far right activist Stephen Yaxley Lennon, known by his supporters as Tommy Robinson.

Farage refuses to have anything to do with him.One of the standout trends in British politics since the general election last July has been the rise and rise of Reform UK.Granted, opinion polls years and years out from the next general election should be treated with some scepticism, but Reform's growth in popularity has been sustained and has certainly been enough to spook their political rivals.

But this is a turbulent moment for the party.Farage criticised Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky for not wearing a suit at the White House and the Reform leader's critics like to point to admiration he has expressed in the past for the Russian President Vladimir Putin's abilities as a "political operator".

He has also made much of his closeness to and admiration for President Trump, when opinion polls in the UK suggest America's leader is not popular here.

Both Labour and the Conservatives have seized on this in various ways – keen to point to instincts from Farage that are not wildly popular."We've got a good business case. We just need a quick decision."

Restoring the line requires about three miles (5km) of new track.It was going to be funded by the Restoring Your Railway programme, before it was axed, with new stations to be built in the town centre and in Pill, as part of the Metrowest mass transportation project.

The Portishead link's price tag of £152m was set to have been partly funded by the DfT, which paid upfront costs of around £45m as part of the Restoring Your Railway fund.This was accompanied by additional funding from the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) and North Somerset Council.