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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn and Rowena Mason

Hip-hop mimes and breast jokes win Farage a valuable gen Z following

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage’s TikTok output includes a video of him mouthing the lyrics to Eminem’s Without Me. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

While Nigel Farage has written off many in generation X for being hopelessly woke and leftwing, he is much more interested in gen Z.

“Support is exploding among young gen Z 18-25 voters,” he told an audience in Runcorn in Cheshire on Thursday. “Something remarkable is happening out there. There’s an awakening in a younger generation who have had enough of being dictated to, have had enough of being lectured to, and they’re seeing through the BS they’re getting in schools and universities.”

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