Burnham’s Man City gaffe is rocket fuel for Farage as he takes every opportunity to hit the PM where it hurts

NIGEL Farage vowed to save Brexit as he kick-started Reform’s “general election campaign” in Yorkshire. At a packed rally in Doncaster, the party leader laid into the PM and fired up activists with his greatest hits. Reform in power would axe Net Zero, slash migration and cut welfare spending, he told the crowd. But fundamentally, Mr Farage was there to rally the troops after a bruising 12 months. Sting operations and rows over donations have dented Reform’s poll lead, while the road to power remains a rocky one. Recent surveys have put Reform, Labour and the Tories almost neck-and-neck in the race for Number 10. Read more in Politics But Mr Farage reassured activists — some sporting Farage No10 football shirts — that the PM’s hints of reopening the Brexit wars had handed him fresh ammunition. Leave-voting areas such as Doncaster could prove crucial at the next election, with Labour facing a battle to hold on to its Red Wall seats. Mr Farage, in full pantomime mode, had the crowd jeering senior Labour figures in Yorkshire, including Yvette Cooper and Ed “Moribund” Miliband. Mr Burnham, meanwhile, is no stranger to putting his foot in it — most recently with his intervention in the Manchester City case. Most read in The Sun A tanned Mr Farage then shot off in his helicopter after the rally, promising to hit the road and get Reform campaign-ready. Whatever happens, this is rocket fuel for a leader looking for every opportunity to hit the PM where it hurts.