Trump Might Find a Political Soulmate in Nigel Farage, Whose Reform UK Party Claims a Membership To Rival Tories

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Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage at Clacton-On-Sea, England, June 21, 2024. AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth

LONDON — President-elect Trump, about to return to power in Washington after a historic comeback, may find a political soulmate in the form of a British conservative political leader with a chance at an epic upset of his own eventually taking over as prime minister.

That’s the implication of the claim by the minority Reform UK Party, led by Nigel Farage, that it’s outstripped the venerable Conservative Party in numbers of members. “We consign the failed Conservative Party to the history books,” Reform UK boasts on its website. “We overtook the Conservatives at 131,680.” 

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