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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Enter Nige’s fantasy UK, where crims operate with impunity and only the lucky get out alive

Sarah Pochin, Nigel Farage and Laila Cunningham with a sign in the background reading ‘Britain needs Reform’.
Farage is flanked by two Tory defectors, Sarah Pochin (left) and Laila Cunningham. Photograph: James Manning/PA

A darkened room in central London. Curtains drawn to keep the lawbreakers out. A few dozen brave journalists who have dared to walk the streets. Mugshots of convicted criminals along with the sentences received line the walls on video screens. Though weirdly, none of James McMurdock. Perhaps Reform has yet to update its own database of undesirables. Young James is taking a break from the party whip while the Public Sector Fraud Authority investigates Covid loans to his companies. That’s the trouble with London today. Trust no one.

Just after 11am, a siren goes off and Nigel Farage, the Conservative-turned-Reform councillor Laila Cunningham and Tory-turned-Reform MP Sarah Pochin settle down behind a table. To their right is a lectern with the slogan “Britain is lawless”. Miraculously, none of them have had their phones nicked or been stabbed on the journey into London. A city where crims operate with impunity. Dante’s seventh circle of hell. A place where only the lucky get out alive.

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