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Nigel Farage’s left-wing turn looks like a triumph

2 May 2025

9:59 PM

2 May 2025

9:59 PM

Nigel Farage declared earlier this year that ‘economics might be bigger than immigration for us at the next election’. Most people at Westminster didn’t take him particularly seriously. After all, Reform UK is all about immigration, right?

Westminster didn’t take Farage seriously. After all, Reform UK is all about immigration, right?

When Farage based his local election campaign on an overt pitch to working-class Labour voters by talking about trade unions and reindustrialisation, some parts of the political village were still dismissive. How

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