UPDATE 12th August, 2025: Yet again this week Reform UK hosted a press conference at 11am Monday morning, in their new studio. While Sky News again retained greater editorial control, they still choose to cover it while other broadcasters (excluding GB News) decided it was not newsworthy enough...
The Rise of the Right
From the far right gangs led by Tommy Robinson, to the hard right politicians coming together under Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, the ‘radical right’ is the coalition of actors that weaponise the inequality and division that created the conditions for Brexit.
The combination of poor living standards, misinformation and disinformation from foreign actors - or even our own news outlets - and the failure of politicians to engage with too many sections of society, have created the perfect conditions for the radical right to seize control of the United Kingdom in future, just as they have in parts of Europe and the rest of the world.
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Defection Tracker
Tory to Reform UK Defection Tracker
Reform UK are presenting themselves as an insurgent political party, yet their adoption of former Conservatives shows they are nothing more than the 'Tories in disguise'.
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