Back in September 2023, we put Nigel Farage top of our inaugural Right Power List. To some, the choice seemed like a strange one. The Conservatives were still in government and Farage was then not even an MP. But, we maintained, the Reform leader’s influence across a range of areas – Brexit, immigration, net zero – meant that while “Sunak is in office, it is Farage who is in power”.
That verdict aged well. Farage has confirmed his status as the unofficial leader of the British right (and became an MP in Clacton). Reform’s support has grown since the general election – it now regularly exceeds 20 per cent (up from 14 per cent in July). Farage’s speech at last week’s Spectator parliamentary awards, in which he declared that a “political revolution” was approaching, has prompted more debate than anything Kemi Badenoch has said since becoming Conservative leader.
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