Nigel Farage and deputy Reform leader Richard Tice leave the venue following the press conference.Nigel Farage has been accused of copying the tactics of Donald Trump after he criticised a journalist at a press conference.The Reform UK leader accused Andrew Learmonth, the political editor of The Herald newspaper, of colluding with protesters outside the venue in Aberdeen.Farage was in the city ahead of a crucial Scottish Parliament by-election in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse on Thursday.After calling the journalist to ask him a question, Farage said: “Andrew Learmonth, it seems that you’re involved with this group of protesters outside.”When the journalist told Farage he wasn’t, the Reform leader replied: “Well it’s funny isn’t it that you come and your newspaper also manages to have another one of your correspondents as a protest correspondent, so you know more about this than we did.”Learmonth then said: “That’s not true at all, Nigel, sorry.”Farage eventually told the reporter: “If you say that, I believe you.”But he adde