Nigel Farage has been warned of an “Establishment plot to destroy him” and stop Reform UK winning power by any means necessary.

Mr Farage, whose party has topped opinion polls for almost a year, just days ago set his sights on the 2026 local elections – which he suggested could springboard Reform into power.

“If we get this right on May 7 this year, we will go on and win that General Election,” he vowed.

But now, speaking on The Spectator’s Quite Right! podcast, Brexit mastermind Dominic Cummings has issued the Reform boss a chilling warning: Whitehall will break the law to stop his party winning.

“They’ll leak medical records, they’ll leak tax records,” Mr Cummings told hosts Michael Gove and Madeline Grant.

“They’ll bug his phone and leak that. They’ll do anything that they need to.”

The former Vote Leave director said “the people around Starmer” want to exact revenge on Mr Farage for Brexit.

And following his remarks, Reform’s Zia Yusuf issued an eerie response: “It’s already begun.”

Mr Cummings continued: “The people around Starmer and all through the upper echelons of the Whitehall system are looking at Trump.

“They’re looking across Europe, and they’re saying to themselves: ‘The lesson is to strike early and strike hard and not let these people in’,” he said.

He added that Establishment bigwigs thought they “should never have let Vote Leave win the referendum on Brexit” and considered it “the beginning of the disaster for us”.

Then, he outlined what he said was their goal: “smashing the absolute s*** out of Farage and making sure that he doesn’t win it – by fair means and foul”.

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His warning echoed the scathing words of Suella Braverman, who told GB News the “lefty Establishment” is “petrified” of Mr Farage just weeks ago.

Mrs Braverman told the People’s Channel: “With Brexit, the establishment closed ranks and do everything to try and stop the people from voting with their conscience and their heart and their minds. They didn’t win.

“We’ve seen it with Trump in America, the establishment piled on to try and stop him winning. It didn’t work.”

And it came mere hours before the revelations of fellow departed No10 aide Paul Ovenden, who accused civil servants of being consumed by “fringe” obsessions and siphoning power from the Government.

Writing in The Times, Mr Ovenden said Labour had been taken captive by a “Stakeholder State” that has shifted “politics and power away from voters”.

Warnings of Establishment plots follow a series of reports in the Guardian which tabled decades-old claims of racism and bullying to Mr Farage’s door.

But the Reform UK leader has cast down fears the allegations could damage his party, instead suggesting they could work in his favour.

Mr Farage said the claims have been seen by Britons as a smear campaign by the “mainstream media”.

“It’s having zero effect. It’s maybe solidifying our core support,” he said.