Britain's Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage, left, shakes hands with Preston Manning as they share the stage during the party's national conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, Britain, on Sept. 5.

Right-wing populist leader Nigel Farage, whose Reform UK party is surging in the polls in Britain , says he is modelling his strategy on that of Preston Manning, who led Canada’s Reform Party to eclipse the federal Progressive Conservatives in the 1990s.

Mr. Manning received a standing ovation after speaking to Reform UK’s annual conference on Friday, where Mr. Farage paid tribute to him, saying the Canadian politician and onetime opposition leader had “destroyed” the PCs, and is his “inspiration.”

He told a packed conference hall in Birmingham that he had modelled his

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