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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke and David Maddox

Reform’s conference has the energy of a MAGA tribute act – but write off Farage at your peril

This year’s Reform UK conference has all the hallmarks of many of the party’s other events that came before it. Bold promises, a heavily utilised bar that serves booze from 10am, expensive merchandise that members go wild for, and – of course – pyrotechnics.

But there was something different about this year’s conference. There was a palpable sense that Nigel Farage really could be Britain’s next prime minister.

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