As Farage Reverses Course To Stand in Snap Election, Will Reform UK Become New Face of Britain’s Right? 

Political obstacles be damned: With Labour’s victory a near-certainty, Reform’s new leader frames his party’s short-term role as the ‘official opposition’ in the new Parliament.

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Nigel Farage at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Oxon Hill, Maryland, February 23, 2024. AP Photo/Alex Brandon

At a hastily called news conference Monday afternoon, Nigel Farage announced he had changed his mind. Yes, he was going to stand at the UK general election, as a Reform candidate for the seat of Clacton. Political obstacles, be damned.

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