This was the news British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not want.
The short version
- Nigel Farage is running for election with the UK's Reform Party, which could divide Conservative voters.
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Nigel Farage has never sat in the British Parliament. He tried seven times.
However, he has succeeded in becoming one of the most influential politicians in Britain over the past two decades.
Nigel Farage cultivated opposition to the European Union in Britain as leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). It helped push the referendum on Britain's membership in the European Union. He got what he wanted. But Farage is not satisfied.
On Tuesday evening, a televised debate took place between the two main figures in the election campaign: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labor Party leader Keir Starmer.
Bad news for Sunak
But it was someone else who stole the headlines that day. Nigel Farage announced today, Monday, that he will take over the leadership of the British Reform Party and run in the elections scheduled for the fourth of next July.
It's bad news for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Most people believe that it is his own voters from whom Farage will take votes. The Conservative Party was in very bad shape before the election even before the right-wing populist signed on.
When he started his campaign, Farage promised to be a real nuisance. But he himself got a milkshake in the face.
A 25-year-old woman has been arrested for throwing away what appears to be a banana milkshake from a McDonald's restaurant, according to the British Daily Mail. BBC.
That would help Trump
Rishi Sunak has received criticism for choosing to call a new election this summer. Many of his party colleagues had more confidence in his ability to attract voters to the crisis-stricken party if given more time. By the fall, people might feel that the economy was on the road to recovery.
However, it has been speculated whether Rishi Sunak may have chosen to postpone the election until the summer to take Nigel Farage and the Reform Party to bed. They won't be able to mobilize until July 4th.
Farage himself has said that he will focus on helping Donald Trump win the US elections. Until recently, he refused to participate in the British elections this year.
A U-turn from Farage
But now he has made a complete U-turn. On Tuesday, when he began his show in the Clacton constituency, he accused the Conservatives of failing on Brexit. He said that the British were promised to control the borders.
-But what happened? The Conservatives have failed us. They have opened the borders to a mass migration that we have never seen before. For this reason, they deserve to pay a heavy price, according to The Times.
Most of them, including Farage, believe Labor will win.
“Reform UK’s most important role in this election is not to win votes, but to help Conservatives lose votes,” he wrote. Watchman.
Times commentator Fears that Farage will contribute to continued chaos in British politics.
The question is what can win?
Threat to conservatives
The British electoral system means that small parties have little chance of reaching the top. Farage's party could thus contribute to the division of the Conservative vote between the Conservative Party, the government party, and Farage. Business can benefit from this. It is not certain that Farage's party will win any constituencies at all.
However, he is seen as a threat to the Conservative Party. says commentator Andrew Neil On Radio Times It is “no longer just silly speculation.” It is believed that the Islah Party could threaten to take control of the Conservative Party after its defeat in the elections.
Rishi Sunak's party is suffering from major internal tensions. They have some powerful politicians who want to drag the party to the right. Like Farage, they want to withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights. They will adopt stronger measures against immigration. The big question is what will happen if the electoral defeat is as great as opinion polls indicate.
According to the latest YouGov poll, Labor was more likely to win in a landslide than when Tony Blair won in 1996. In the poll, conducted before Farage arrived in the field, the Reform Party was unable to get any candidate into Parliament.
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