2025-04-29
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Just a year ago Britain seemed to be emerging from nearly a decade of post-Brexit madness.
A refreshingly dull election was being fought between Rishi Sunak and Sakir Starmer,
a pair of sober-suited, workaholic technocrats with conventional economic ideas.
After Sakir swept to victory,
ministers boasted that investors would flock to an island of stability in a sea of turmoil.
Today, populism is back in Britain with a vengeance.
In council elections in England on May 1,
Reform UK, the party led by the architect of Brexit,
Nigel Farage, is poised to inflict heavy losses on the Conservatives.
Mr Farage is once again upending politics,
with grave implications for Britain and its role in Europe.
That is because his second act threatens to be more audacious than his first,
the pursuit not of Brexit, but of power.
The idea that national office is within Mr Farage's grasp probably sounds fantastical.
Britain has a Labour government with a supersized majority.