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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is expected to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, rubbing shoulders with top politicians and business figures from around the world despite criticising the conference in the past.
Farage's greatest strength has always been his authenticity as an outsider. He's Nigel, not Robert or Nadhim. He's the bloke in the pub, not the smooth operator in Whitehall. But with every defection he celebrates, that authenticity erodes.
The Reform UK leader recorded a Cameo video praising “a good man” after being tricked into honoring the convicted child sex offender.
Sir Keir has signed a declaration of intent to deploy British troops to Ukraine as part of security guarantees for a future peace deal. Mr Farage opposes this, saying that the British and French alone lack the manpower and equipment for an operation “that clearly has no ending timeline”.
Reform UK has grown from a fringe euroskeptic movement into a major force in British politics. By railing against immigration and the rising cost of living, the party led by Brexit figurehead Nigel Farage has siphoned support from the governing Labour party and Conservative opposition to fracture the old two-party system.
Anti-racism campaigners and unions voiced their horror after Nigel Farage doubled down on his decade-old call for anti-discrimination laws to be ripped up so employers can discriminate
Nadhim Zahawi, who was briefly chancellor under Boris Johnson, once said he would be frightened to live in a country run by Nigel Farage.