Across Britain, in venues large and small, thousands gather not just to hear Nigel Farage, but to find something they feel is missing from modern politics: belonging
The Economist’s British Politics correspondent, Matthew Holehouse, has been on the Reform UK campaign trail. He’s watched how a fringe movement builds a stage, fills it with spectacle, and starts to believe it could govern.
On The Weekend Intelligence, he steps inside the rallies, and the revival of an old political tradition - the public meeting - to ask whether Britain is ready to take Nigel Farage seriously.
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