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Nigel Farage's mistake

Nigel Farage's mistake

Covid-contrarianism is not the germ of a new popular movement

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Nov 02, 2020
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Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage single-handedly changed the course of British politics. Without the pressure he piled on the Conservative party through his campaign for the UK to leave the EU, David Cameron would not have been sufficiently spooked to call the referendum on EU membership that he assumed he would comfortably win. The rest is (almost) history.

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