""We are halfway towards being ready," Nigel Farage tells me. On occasion, he is quite unlike other politicians, with flashes of honesty you wouldn't hear from others. He says he wants to be prime minister, while admitting his party is not yet ready for power. Yet sometimes, he is entirely like the cliche - the long-serving politician who is intensely reluctant to confront accusations of past mistakes."
""Yet what Farage has achieved in the past year with Reform, the self-styled \"people's army\" he leads, is off the charts. For decades he's had influence, but it's been exercised from the sidelines. Now, with successive opinion polls putting his party ahead of Labour and the Conservatives, he poses a grave threat to the two political tribes who have passed power back and forth between them as voters saw fit, for 100 years.""
Nigel Farage seeks the prime ministership while admitting his Reform party is not yet ready to govern. Farage offered an apology that said sorry "if" anyone was hurt but insisted he never intended to cause harm. Accusations of racist and antisemitic behaviour from his teenage years at Dulwich College continue to trouble those affected. Reform, styling itself as the 'people's army', has surged in opinion polls and now polls above Labour and the Conservatives. The party's rapid rise shifts influence from the sidelines and poses a serious threat to the century-long Labour-Conservative dominance. Questions persist about Reform's readiness to govern before a potential 2029 election.
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