The party dragging Nigel Farage further to the right – podcast

Daniel Trilling on the far-right party threatening Reform’s chances in the Makerfield byelection

Does Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain threaten to erode the Reform UK vote share in the Makerfield byelection?

“Restore [Britain] have positioned themselves as a harder-line alternative to Reform,” says Daniel Trilling, journalist and author of If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable. “They’re pushing for an even more extreme policy of deportations for unauthorised migrants, but the rhetoric around that, I think, is quite shockingly extreme as well.