Ben Habib, who quit the party after being ousted as its deputy leader, welcomed the move.

However, he said the party’s constitution was “flawed” and puts Farage’s leadership “in a virtually unassailable position”.

Under Reform’s new constitution, which was agreed at the party’s conference in September, members can remove their leader in a no-confidence vote, triggered if 50% of them write to the chairman requesting one.

Reform MPs can also force a vote if 50 of them, or 50% of them, request one. But this only applies if there are more than 100 Reform MPs in Parliament and the party currently only has five.

Under the constitution, only three members of the party’s board would be elected, with the remainder made up of the leader and chairman and other members chosen by the leader.

Asked why the board was not made up solely of elected members, Farage told GB News that the party he previously led, UKIP, had a fully elected National Executive Commission and it “became completely and utterly and totally ungovernable”.

“There has to be some degree of trust amongst the members in the leader, in the leadership team,” he said.

“But ultimately, if they don’t like what I’m doing, they now have the means of removing me.”