Can Brexit save Nigel Farage again?

The Irish Times · Mark Paul · 2026-11-06 16:00 UTC

As Labour edges closer to Europe, Reform UK’s battered leader is betting that old arguments still have the power to move British voters

Britain’s prime minister Andy Burnham and European Union leaders are off to Brussels later this month for the EU-UK summit. So is Nigel Farage.

The embattled Reform UK leader and spiritual sensei of the Brexiteer movement has endured a political annus horribilis. His insurgent populist right-wing party’s path to power once seemed inexorable but this year it tanked in the polls, mired in scandals.

Farage tried to kick-start a fightback of sorts on Thursday with yet another big, expensively-produced event in central London to announce Reform’s new defence spokesperson, strait-laced former Royal Air Force officer, Angus MacIntyre.

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