New UK Far-Right Parties Are Coming to Compete for Farage’s Voters

Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UKPhotographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

Nigel Farage has stoked a crisis in mainstream UK conservatism by hiving off voters on its right fringe. After a year leading the polls, others are now training that tactic on him.

There’s evidence that Farage’s Reform UK is now leaking support to two new parties led by colleagues-turned-rivals even further to his right. One of those groups — Restore UK — has even secured the endorsement of US-based Elon Musk, the billionaire whose “free speech” crusade has made him a darling of the online right.