DAN HODGES: The two big parties deserved the shock Reform gave them - but the next election will still be between Labour and the Tories

Nigel Farage entered Parliament two years ago on the back of legitimate public fury over the failure of successive governments to secure the nation’s borders. But it will be between Andy Burnham’s Labour Party and Kemi Badenoch’s ConservativesReform’s dramatic political advance reached its zenith in the polls last October. True, few of these policies secured the fanfare of this week's announcement from Nigel Farage. Or worse, forced to jump through increasingly bizarre populist hoops in a desperate effort to re-energise Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf’s fading circus. But it will be between Andy Burnham’s Labour Party and Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives.