Nigel Farage will be banned from the Conservative party whoever replaces Rishi Sunak as leader, it has emerged. Mel Stride today confirmed that he would not allow Nigel Farage to sit on the Conservative benches in the Commons. This means that all of the six candidates to replace Rishi Sunak as leader have turned their faces against working closely with Farage, the leader of the Reform UK party. The position is in contrast to Sunak who twice told GB News last year – at the party’s conference in October and on a trip to a climate change summit in December – that Farage could join the party, sayi…