Is Nigel Farage Losing His Political Touch?

UK Special Coverage An ill-advised party alliance follows other blunders. UK Special Coverage Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images Nigel Farage, leader of the hard-right Reform Party, has for many years been the bête noire of the British left, largely because of his support for Brexit and his opposition to mass immigration. He is routinely called a racist, a bigot, and a reactionary fantasist who would take Britain back to the Dark Ages. Milkshakes and other objects have been hurled at him by “antifascist” demonstrators. (One comedian famously said on the BBC she wished he’d been pelted with battery acid instead.) But Farage has always rebutted the accusations of neofascism by insisting that a desire to secure Britain’s borders and remove illegal migrants does not make one “far right.” Ind