With Reform UK looking increasingly likely to turn public outrage over immigration into seats at the next general election in 2029, Westminster is staring into the abyss.
At a widely covered press conference this week, the party hammered home its talking points: mass deportations, barbed-wire camps, and paying authoritarian regimes – including the Taliban – to park migrants out of sight. But first, bin the European Convention on Human Rights.
The whole spectacle proved that Nigel Farage hasn’t just joined the debate – he owns it. Views and policies that would once have been seen as extremist are now treated as normal. Illiberalism has been rebranded as ‘common sense’.
