Nigel Farage shakes up UK election, establishment on return to politics: 'British Trump'
Fox News
UK populist leader Nigel Farage and the Reform UK party surge in polls and may become the leading right-wing political movement in the country as the mainstream Conservative Party faces electoral wipeout.
"So I’m back. I’m standing as a candidate in this election. I’ve taken the leadership over of Reform UK," Farage said in a video posted to X, referring to the successor of the Brexit Party. "You know why? I see our country going down the drain. I believe in Britain. These boring idiots that lead the Labour and Conservative parties are not worth the space."
The announcement comes after Farage’s nearly half-decade hiatus from political campaigning amid the success of the Brexit campaign to leave the European Union (EU). Britain voted to leave the EU in the contentious 2016 referendum and formally departed in 2020.