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Britain’s Reform UK party does not exist

But it is all the more powerful as a result

Nigel Farage as a ghost, pint in hand, with a cigarette in his mouth
Photograph: Nate Kitch

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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