With Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Surging in Polls Against Tories, Opportunity Beckons for Rapprochement on Right

With a Labour landslide looming, it is time for Reform and the Conservative Party to focus less on who will serve as the people’s opposition to a left-wing Government.

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Britain's Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at London, June 14, 2024. James Manning/PA via AP

With just less than three weeks before UK electors go to the polls to decide their next government, the main event right now is Nigel Farage and Reform UK. To what new heights will these challengers to the “conservative” status quo climb? And to what depths will the Conservative Party sink? 

At his opening remarks before a televised debate Thursday evening, Mr. Farage had a stunning announcement: “Just before we came on air we overtook the Conservatives in the national opinion polls. We are now the opposition to Labour.”

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