Britain’s Nigel Farage takes center-stage as his Reform UK party piles pressure on Labour

Birmingham, England —

In his three decades in and around politics, Nigel Farage has been like a barometer – gauging Britain’s political climate to pick up on pressure points in the electorate. Now, he is more like the weather itself.

Although his upstart Reform UK party won just four parliamentary seats in last year’s general election, Farage, the maverick architect of Brexit, has since set the terms of Britain’s political debate, hounding the Labour government over its struggles to control illegal immigration .

Since the election, Reform has tried to refashion itself from a protest vote party to one that could govern – untried and inexperienced, but ready to step in if the Labour Party buckles under its own blunders, and the once-mighty Conservatives drift further into political ir