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Farage’s anti-system party started the week determined to regain control

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Nigel Farage’s anti-system party started the week determined to regain control of Reform UK .
While Yusuf was interviewed in the coveted 8.10am slot on the Today programme, Farage was in Wales .
He delivered a speech fusing right and left populism aimed at disaffected Labour voters.
Reform improbably won 26 per cent of the vote in the Hamilton , Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election last week .
Sarah Pochin knew what she was saying when she asked about banning the burqa in the Commons.
Yusuf was correct to call the question dumb”, on multiple levels, writes Andrew Keen .
Keen: Pochins was cynically, opportunistically “laying down a marker” as one her allies put it to Keen .
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