"Nigel Farage is the most influential politician of his generation never to have held ministerial office. His campaigning prowess was instrumental in taking Britain out of the European Union. The methods he used, ratcheting the terms of debate ever rightwards, galvanising public dissatisfaction on a range of issues and connecting it to immigration, are now being deployed to boost his candidacy as a future prime minister."
"Mr Farage was in Washington earlier this week, stoking radical Republicans' paranoid illusion of Britain as a hellscape where free speech is stifled and national culture is corroded by immigration. He endorsed Donald Trump's method of mass deportations, enforced with contempt for law and human rights. Mr Trump uses vicious rhetoric to stir fear and hatred of migrants, casting them as predators and criminals, blurring the distinction between illegal arrivals and legally settled, foreign-born citizens."
Nigel Farage rose to prominence without ministerial office by leading the campaign to take Britain out of the European Union. He shifted political debate rightwards, linking public dissatisfaction on many issues to immigration and using provocative tactics to attract attention. He now seeks to convert campaigning success into a bid for prime minister and aims to project unstoppable momentum through Reform UK. He has endorsed Donald Trump's mass-deportation methods and touts a playbook that mobilises racial animosity, erodes civic norms and risks authoritarian erosion. The UK has a stronger record of migrant integration, but xenophobic extremes are becoming normalised.
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