Why does Nigel Farage get to play British politics on easy mode? | Andy Beckett

Nigel Farage's latest party, Reform UK , appears to be playing politics on easy mode.

Farage's constant speeches and press conferences receive huge coverage for a tiny Westminster party .

Farage is a wealthy, privately educated southern Englishman who used to work in the City of London .

In a country supposedly sick of political rancour, he consistently falls out with colleagues.

Farage can sit back, seemingly above the Westminster squabbles many dislike.

Farage may finally start to age politically speaking as he becomes more of a Westminster fixture.

But waiting for him and his party to lose their novelty is a risky strategy for Reform ’s opponents.

Anxious Labour activists and election strategists increasingly talk about promoting a “stop Reform” message.

But with Reform enjoying an ascendancy that our political systems never anticipated, we are in uncharted territory already.