Reform UK maintains its lead in a new poll after the Rupert Lowe row. The survey by Find Out Now puts Nigel Farage's party on 26%, down one point from the week before.

Labour is second with 23%, up one, while the Tories are third on 22%, also up one The Lib Dems are on 12% and the Greens are on 11% in the poll of 2,745 people carried out yesterday.

It comes as Reform has been at the centre of a civil war after kicking out one of its MPs.

Mr Lowe, who represents Great Yarmouth, lost the party whip earlier this month amid allegations of office bullying.

He was also reported to the police over claims of verbal threats towards Reform chairman Zia Yusuf.

Mr Lowe has repeatedly denied the allegations against him and suggested that he was ousted because he threatened to overshadow Mr Farage.

He had questioned the Clacton MP's leadership of the insurgent party in an outspoken interview a day earlier.

Reform said on Tuesday that an independent KC had found "credible evidence of unlawful harassment of two women" by Mr Lowe and "male members of his team".

The Great Yarmouth MP claimed that claimed Reform was "shamefully attacking my innocent staff to smear my name".

He added: "This is not right. It's unprecedented in modern British politics."

It comes as Reform is holding a massive rally in Birmingham tomorrow night ahead of the local elections.