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Other thorny issues - including tech export restrictions and Chinese purchases of US agricultural products - so far remain unresolved.

Then there's the thorny question of splitting bills.

Candidate selection has always been a thorny issue for Farage's various electoral vehicles, with election campaigns blown off course by scandals.

The hope is the new line up will work more quickly, and push harder on the government's most thorny problems.

A Reform government could indeed do so - although it would lead to some thorny legal problems if a lots of other laws linked to both were not unpicked at the same time.