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Britain’s Reform UK party does not exist
But it is all the more powerful as a result
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Reform uk may have an address at 83 Victoria Street in London. The right-wing challenger party may be registered with the Electoral Commission, a bit below Putting Crewe First and a few spots above Revolutionary Communist Party Britain (Marxist-Leninist). Courtesy of Nigel Farage, its honorary president, the party may attract reams of media coverage. It may well be, according to the polls, the third-largest party in Britain.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Reform UK does not exist”
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