“Nigel Farage must have slept like a log on election night.†Bitter, the Daily Mirror make no mistake. A decade exactly after his victorious campaign in favor of Brexit, the former MEP has once again shaken up the British political landscape. “Now he will repeat to anyone who wants to listen, pint in hand and self-satisfied expression, that this is a historic, unstoppable, seismic upheaval… sighs the left-wing tabloid.
On May 7, the populist right-wing Reform UK party, co-founded and led by Farage, achieved a double breakthrough. Within English local councils, first, with more than 1,450 seats won out of the 5,000 up for grabs. Then and above all, its troops made a resounding entry into the decentralized Parliaments of Wales and Scotland, to the point of constituting the second largest force of these hemicycles behind the independentists, victorious in the vote in Cardiff (Plaid Cymru) and in Edinburgh (Scottish National Party).
Desires for rebellion
“Once again, he managed to exploit the desire for rebellion which propelled the United Kingdom towards leaving the European Union, analyse The Daily Telegraph. It gives hope to voters who think Labor and the Tories will never listen to them.†Because, everywhere
