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Britain’s voters can’t resist a messy drama. How fortunate for Nigel Farage and Reform | Marina Hyde

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It was a busy week for Reform chair Zia Yusuf , whose job over the past 11 months had been to reform Reform.

Yusuf will now run a UK version of Doge as we know, the perfect role for highly emotional men.

On Monday , Farage could be found in Wales promising to reopen Port Talbot steelworks, a plan so nutso that it could only be believed by conspiracy theorists.

Marina Hyde says the lack of discipline is part of the appeal of Nigel Farage .

Instead of trying to counter Farage with the very conventions to which he is an adverse reaction, the two main parties should consider how badly they’ve cocked things up that Nigel ’s rolling drama seems like a good idea.

“Can we do it?” wondered Dr David Bull rhetorically this morning .

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