Nigel Farage is back: being elected MP is difficult, but it will further hamper the accounts of Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives
Leaving what was said as unsaid, and certainly not for the first time, veteran eurosceptic Nigel Farage announced this Monday that he is running for deputy in the British elections on July 4th and that he is resuming the leadership of the Reform Party, a force on the populist right, heir to two previous Farage formations – the Brexit Party and the Independence Party (UKIP) – and headed since 2021 by businessman Richard Tice .
Farage presents his candidacy for the Clacton constituency on Tuesday, after weeks of stating that he would not run in the early elections, preferring to help Donald Trump in the US presidential elections in November. “I wonder if Trump’s conviction last week has compelled Farage to move away from that scenario,†British political scientist Alia Middleton tells Expresso. She assures that she always suspected that the politician “would be unable to resist†taking the fight.
