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Nigel Farage Turns Heat on U.K. Conservatives
With new seat in Parliament, he attracts voters alienated by globalism and immigration.
T BY MICHAEL COZZI
he british general elec- tion in July saw the rise of a new political party and the return of a familiar face,
Nigel Farage. As new leader of the upstart
Reform UK Party, which gained five seats in Parliament, Farage is offer- ing an alternative to the Conservative Party, which he insists has abandoned conservatism. Political observers expect
Farage will use his seat in Parliament to pressure Conservatives away from the center and back to their traditional roots on the right. Rob Bates, who was Far-
age’s campaign manager in the election, says his anti- illegal immigration plat- form mirrors the policy of his friend, former President Donald Trump. “We’ve seen Conservative support-
FARAGE
what people had been missing for the last five years. The Conservatives were given a mandate to enact conservative policies like Brexit and immigration, but they got the wind taken out of their sails by COVID. “It made people feel that they were shortchanged.” The result was that the govern-
ing Conservatives, who had a 40-seat majority in the House of Commons, were thrown out of office in the elec- tion as voters vented their frustration at Britain’s eco- nomic stagnation, a crum- bling healthcare system, and waves of illegal immi- grants arriving on boats from the European main- land.
The party was left with
just 121 seats, down from 251 in the previous Parlia-
ers’ dissatisfaction with their party and that they are looking for an alter- native,” Bates told Newsmax. “When Nigel decided to step back into politics, he became the epitome of
ment, and a new Labour government was sworn in under Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Bates insists Farage is the only poli-
tician in British politics who is unapol- ogetically conservative. He became a household name in the U.K. eight years ago, championing the Brexit
Anger Boils Over T
referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union. One of the decisive reasons to leave
was opposition in “rust belt” areas of northern England where residents were dismayed by the number of immigrants allowed by the EU’s free movement of people rules. “Nigel is British, patriotic, willing
to call a spade a spade, and willing to call out nonsense. You didn’t get any of that from the Conservatives in the last Parliament,” Bates said. Farage was able to reach out to dis-
affected voters and win a seat in this Parliament because of globalist poli- cies under both major parties, similar to how Trump changed the Republican Party in 2016 and revitalized it in 2024. Like Trump, Farage has held career
politicians to account and defeated Conservatives who were conservative in name only. Farage has campaigned for Trump
in the U.S. and attended the GOP con- vention in Milwaukee in July. “The British public yearns for
people who tell the truth and shoot straight, whereas so many other politi- cians just tell lie after lie,” said Bates. “None of what they promised
was really delivered, and few politi- cians have a level of pride of actually wanting to deliver what they origi- nally promised.”
he immigration issue erupted in violence in August as the U.K. was rocked by riots after three small children were knifed to death. The incident was erroneously
reported on social media to have been carried out by an immigrant. A teenager born in Wales was later charged in the murders. Some in the media pointed the finger at Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform
UK Party, for helping to stoke anger on the streets. In the wake of the killings, Farage questioned “whether the truth is being withheld
from us.” Within days, riot police were on the streets trying to separate hard-right anti-Muslim
demonstrators from migrant counter-protesters. In one instance, they tried to set fire to a hotel being used to house new immigrants.
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