Just like One Nation, Farage’s Reform UK may have peaked

The Farrer by-election wasn’t the only election where the populist right made gains last week. On Thursday, Nigel Farage’s UK Reform won a slew of council seats in English local elections and made progress in the Scottish and Welsh devolved parliaments.

The similarities between these campaigns were not merely coincidental; There was indeed an umbilical cord. Former Tory MP turned Reform agent Tom Hunt traveled After providing paid advice to Cory Bernardi’s party branch in South Australia, Farrer traveled to New South Wales to advise One Nation on its campaign.