The latest rift within Reform has pitted young party member Sophie Corcoran – a GB News pundit and “antiwoke” activist – against Isabel Oakeshott, the writer who is the partner of deputy party leader Richard Tice.

After Corcoran, a former Conservative who quit the Tories in 2022, posted on social media that she had concerns about Reform backing the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap, Oakeshott replied: “There’s a cap on how many times you can switch party without looking a moron. You exceeded it a while back.”

Corcoran hit back with a reference to Reform’s chief whip Lee “Anderthal” Anderson, formerly of both Labour and the Conservatives, writing “why don’t you tell that to Lee – or is picking on people less than half your age all you can offer?” She also called Oakeshott “a complete loser” and an “unprincipled cow who stabs everyone in the back”, adding: “This woman is constantly rude, condescending and disrespectful. People tiptoe around her like she is a princess but someone has got to tell her to fuck off once in a while.”

Mischievous Reformers are now wondering how they can engineer a surprise meeting between the pair at the party’s Birmingham conference afterparty on September 6, billed “a lively night of drinks, dancing and entertainment in great company”.