‘They feel betrayed’: how Reform UK is targeting votes in Britain’s manufacturing heartlands - short news
In the first in a series, the Guardian maps out the rise in support for Farage and how parties are targeting the UK’s deindustrialised areas
When Nigel Farage called for the nationalisation of British Steel on a visit to the Scunthorpe steelworks this spring, it was a marked change in direction for a man who had spent almost all of his political career campaigning for a smaller, Thatcherite state.
Two years earlier, he had questioned why British taxpayers’ money should be..
source: The Guardian - 21.06.2025