Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, has predicted that Donald Trump’s presidential victory and anticipated second term will serve as a model for the Anglosphere. Speaking on a podcast with former Mumford & Sons guitarist Winston Marshall, Farage drew parallels between Brexit and Trump’s initial 2016 triumph over the political establishment. He suggested that Trump’s reaffirmed ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, marked by a decisive win over Democrat Kamala Harris, will energize populist movements worldwide.
Reflecting on recent developments, Farage noted, “I believe last week was a pivot point in all of this, so I’m actually pretty bullish… I felt it before, but Trump’s victory puts it on steroids.”
Farage, a long-time ally of Trump who re-entered British politics this year with aims to challenge the Westminster establishment in the upcoming general election, suggested that there is a genuine “possibility of a political revolution sweeping through this country in the next few years.”
While President-Elect Trump gained power by reshaping the Republican Party in his image, Nigel Farage took a different path by forming his own party to challenge the UK's establishment parties: the left-leaning Labour Party and the recently ousted Conservative Party, which he criticized as "Conservative-in-name-only."
Farage noted, “I think the level of distrust in both parties, the level of distrust in the type of individuals in those parties, is at the most remarkable level now.”
Like Trump, Farage aims to build a broad coalition of working-class voters, including those disillusioned with both Labour and the Conservatives—a strategy reminiscent of the Brexit movement he led in 2016.
Despite being caught off guard by a snap election called by former Tory PM Rishi Sunak in July, Reform UK garnered 4.1 million votes in the general election, surpassing the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party to become the third-largest party by vote count. However, due to the first-past-the-post voting system, Reform’s 14 percent of the vote yielded only five parliamentary seats, compared to the Conservatives’ 121 seats with 23.7 percent. Still, Reform UK remains optimistic, with strong second-place results in 98 constituencies providing a foundation for the planned 2029 election.
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