Did he want to dump Farage?

I thought he wanted Farage to let Tommy Robinson join reform in return for a large donation.

> It would also be history repeating itself since Farage's old party went from winning elections to being a complete irrelevance when Farage "retired" and the hooligans joined

IIRC the trigger for Farage to leave that party (he had already resigned as leader) was the new party leader wanted to form an alliance with Tommy Robinson's lot.