Peter Franklin: Don’t just enjoy Farage’s failures, learn from them
Peter Franklin analyses why the Reform Party’s momentum has stalled, attributing setbacks to strategic errors by Nigel Farage. He highlights funding transparency issues and the miscalculated Clacton by‑election as key failures. Franklin suggests that Kemi Badenoch can learn from these mistakes to strengthen her own political position.
- ▪Reform achieved a breakthrough in the 2025 local elections but its lead over the Conservatives has narrowed to about five percent.
- ▪Farage’s handling of funding controversies and the Clacton by‑election lacked adequate transparency and foresight.
- ▪Dominic Cummings warned that establishment forces would work to prevent Farage’s success, emphasizing the need for defensive strategies.
- ▪Franklin advises that leaders like Kemi Badenoch should consider potential exploitation of their actions and incorporate dissenting voices into decision‑making.
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Peter Franklin is an Associate Editor of UnHerd. This time last year, Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the Conservative Party was running out of road. Following Reform’s breakthrough in the 2025 local elections, the polls showed the Conservatives suffering a further, and potentially fatal, loss of support. Of course, what followed was the Great Kemi Vibe Shift — and the beginnings of a Tory comeback. Nevertheless, Nigel Farage persisted with his kill-the-Tories strategy. The plan was that the 2026 local elections would bring another big advance for Reform (and it did) — but also, it was assumed, another shift in the polls. Surely the Tories would realise that the game was up and wave the white flag.
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