Farage’s strategy for the Burnham era? It’s all about him – POLITICO

LONDON — Nigel Farage is spending the summer railing against “the Establishment.”

The Reform UK leader faces two tougher-than-expected by-elections amid mounting scrutiny of his finances — and is now fending off criticism of his response to the killing of Ann Widdecombe, a former Conservative minister who became a high-profile Reform spokesperson.

It is just the latest row in which Farage’s party — still leading in British opinion polls as the governing Labour Party prepares to make Andy Burnham prime minister — has sought to cast itself as the victim of a rigged system.