Nigel Farage’s unlikely inspiration

Nigel Farage has just finished his keynote speech at the Reform party’s annual conference. In a performance enhanced by Eminem, balloons and pyrotechnics, the Reform leader received a rapturous response from the packed NEC arena on the outskirts of Birmingham. Farage used the speech to argue that his party is only just beginning. He said he had debated returning for the general election but now he was back planned to go much further:

I looked at the facts that frankly without massive public borrowing, there would have been no growth in our economy for year after year after year. An NHS in which you can’t get a GP appointment, roads that are clogged behind comprehension. And frankly I thought to myself Britain is broken.

And I thought to myself, and I couldn’t help it, if Britain is broken, then Britain needs reform. So I was really in a terrible quandary as to what to do, genuinely.