This cantankerous character was being interviewed by Mark Littlewood, the think tank boss who was the brains behind Liz Truss’s disastrous premiership. Starkey stated that Nigel Farage was “99 per cent certain to win the election” and would then need to declare a state of emergency and emulate Donald Trump. He railed against judges, spoke of the need to deal with the “insurrectionary religion” of Islam, spat out distaste for politicians who obeyed rules and insisted they would need to shut down “vast swathes of the state”.
The conference was an attempt to display depth and substance in readiness for Government (Photo: Jacob King/PA Wire)
These attitudes were echoed throughout the two-day event as Nigel Farage’s latest insurgency lured thousands of new followers to Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre. When I entered the main hall, three young councillors on stage were being asked about bringing back national service 75 years after its abolition. One waffled about indoctrination in schools – a common theme of the conference. Another said he had been in Israel the previous week, meeting soldiers proud to fight for their country, winning cheers at his mention of the Israel Defence Force despite the atrocities and starvation in Gaza.
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His show of sensitivity was rewarded by Farage with public anointment onstage as welfare spokesman. Benefits will be the next issue targeted after focusing on crime over the summer. The tactics are paying off at present with a 15-point poll lead and undeniable momentum. In the hall, there were pantomime boos and cheers as news was shared of the cabinet reshuffle after Angela Rayner’s self-destruction. Labour – like its shambolic Tory predecessors – seems determined to assist Reform’s rise by inflaming the mood of widespread electoral discontent over Westminster’s ineptitude and sleaze.
Reform, so reliant on its leader’s appeal, sought to demonstrate it is not just a one-man band, promoting speakers who were not older white men – although this effort was undermined by all the turquoise “Farage 10” football shirts that dotted the audience.
This theme was taken up by her fellow “Women for Reform” panellist Laila Cunningham, a Westminster councillor with Egyptian heritage, reportedly viewed as Reform’s London mayoral candidate. Never mind that Farage fawns so obsequiously to Trump, a man legally branded a sexual predator who boasted of using fame to abuse women. Cunningham declared that our own government is failing to protect women. ‘That’s why it is an illegal government. The country does not belong to the illegal immigrants, the sexual offenders. It belongs to us.’
I met many lovely and decent citizens among Farage’s recruits, genuinely and often-understandably concerned by their nation’s direction. Yet almost all had joined for one reason. “I am here because the country has been ruined by mass immigration. It’s ruined my community and other people’s communities,” said Maureen, a former hospital manager in her fifties from Bewdley “Their culture is completely different to us.”
A member of the party shows his hat signed by Nigel Farage during the Reform party’s annual conference (Photo: Thomas Krych/AP)
The previous day Farage’s sidekick Zia Yusuf gave an especially hardline speech about Britain “being invaded” by “tens of thousands of fighting age males” who he claimed were being “rewarded for this by a treacherous political class” with hotels and food. Later that day, asked at a fringe event to pick between Robinson and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Reform’s policy chief astonishingly chose the far-right troublemaker over a democratically-elected MP on basis that he “has said things about the rape gangs for years and deserves some credit for that.” There were some cheers, shockingly, when a journalist from Middle East Eye said two colleagues had been killed the previous week while asking a question on Gaza.
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This conference showed clearly how Farage is infecting Britain’s body politic by mimicking Trump’s divisive brand of self-serving populism – complete with the sordid promotion of anti-vaccination quackery and insidious spreading of rumours about the royal family’s health by a main stage speaker linked to the White House. And certainly it is easy to jeer the hypocrisy that sees them repeatedly attack the Online Safety Bill only to embrace its architect Nadine Dorries when she defects from the Tories. A woman, incidentally, who served in a cabinet responsible for the highest migration levels in my lifetime.
But when he calls for the BBC’s abolition or demands the recording of every school lesson and university lecture to tackle ‘‘communist teachers,” we should remember this buffoonish figure has been a leading light in Farage’s movement from the days before the Brexit disaster as the former deputy leader of Ukip.
Farage may be smiling – but this conference showed why we should be wary over his lust for power.
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