Nigel Farage denied being anti-immigration and advocated for market-friendly fiscal policies in a bid to show that his insurgent Reform UK was ready to challenge Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party for power.
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The upstart Reform UK party has emerged as a serious contender in British politics. The right-wing populist movement is threatening to overtake the ruling Labour Party in the polls and its leader, Nigel Farage,
The last week has seen Farage and Reform top a national poll and hold another packed rally as their political momentum continues to gather steam. But the embarrassing row with Elon Musk and issues around Tommy Robinson exposed a number of serious problems for Reform behind the scenes,
The Reform UK leader, who has now flown to the United States for the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, made his feelings plain on GB News after Ms Badenoch’s keynote speech earlier this week, in which she too ruled out working with his party.
The Reform UK leader derided the apparent lack of public interest in Mrs Badenoch in a post on X, formerly Twitter. He said: “A total of 21 people are currently watching Kemi Badenoch’s speech on Facebook, and her YouTube stream crashed. It’s a good job she understands the digital age.”
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On immigration, Farage said Reform UK is “pro-control,” adding that “we are not putting up the barriers entirely.” Farage’s comments mark a departure from his past. During the 2016 Brexit referendum,
According to a report, citing a research conducted by YouGov, its first analysis of voting intention since last summer’s general election that brought Labour to power, Starmer’s government is at 26 per cent,
Nigel Farage has lost the rights to the Brexit Party name in an apparent admin slip — the party he led to victory in the last ever European elections in the UK, effectively took out Theresa May’s premiership and ensured Britain would leave the EU.
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Nigel Farage has lost the rights to the Brexit Party name in an apparent admin slip – the party he led to victory in the last ever European elections in the UK, effectively took out Theresa May ...