‘They’re tearing this country apart.’ I heard it in a pub last week. A man, with the light blue of the phone screen reflected in his face, was watching a reel. He waved the device at a nearby drinker. ‘You seen this?’ It was footage of the latest wave of small boat crossings.

A heated conversation ensued – the sort where its participants, though in agreement, rile each other up into sounding like they’re having an argument – decrying the political class. ‘They’re all the same,’ they said. ‘We need Farage to come in and sort it out.’ They agreed louder.

The small boats have become a metaphor for a broken political system

This week, Nigel Farage has finally made clear what ‘sorting it out’ would involve: withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and, consequently, re

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