Perhaps the most worrying aspect of this year’s UK general election, if the polls are to be believed, is the resurgent far right. Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party failed to win a single seat in 2019 but this time around its successor, Reform UK, is tipped by YouGov to scoop up five.
Reform’s expected success is partly a reaction to the government’s adoption of a number of climate policies and the reality of the transition to a net zero economy promised by both Labour and the Tories (even if neither party goes anywhere near far enough on this).
Yet dig a little deeper and another new political movement is sweeping the country – and receiving far less media attention.
