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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rafael Behr

A braver Tory leader than Badenoch would dare to call out Farage’s bogus patriotism

Composite image of Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage. Composite: Getty/Guardian Design

In free societies, when you don’t like the government, you support the opposition. In dictatorships, or under military occupation, you join the resistance. The distinction isn’t precise but it matters.

All European democracies have radical anti-immigration parties, some on the fringes of opposition, some that have crossed into the mainstream. None qualify as heroic resistance movements, except in the minds of white supremacists who see liberal institutions as part of a conspiracy to ruin Europe by filling it with foreigners. That is also the view taken in the new White House national security strategy, published last week.

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