Großbritannien: Dubiose Parteispenden werden Farage und seiner Reform-UK-Partei zum Verhängnis
Reform UK wollte sich auf ihrem Parteitag als Alternative präsentieren. Doch ein neuer Spendenskandal bringt Nigel Farage in die Defensive – und lässt einen Machtwechsel in weite Ferne rücken.
In a carefully planned Reform UK party conference in Birmingham, the party aimed to demonstrate to Britons that their leader, Nigel Farage, was equipped for power. The party had been rising in the opinion polls for months, and a 100-day program was prepared, with Farage intending to enforce national emergency laws. However, everything turned out quite differently.
Starting Friday, Reform UK and its leader, Nigel Farage, found themselves in a political crisis and experienced for the first time how populists become unpopular. A new party financing scandal overshadowed the carefully planned conference and forced Farage and his allies into a permanent defensive posture. Two of his closest advisors, including James Orr, the "Head of Policy," had to resign.
In his core speech, repeatedly interrupted by heckling, Farage called the affair a "small local problem." He claimed the party had done nothing wrong. "We have not taken illegal donations," affirmed the populist. The party's troubles are not likely to go unnoticed for long. Reform UK had already fallen to third place behind the ruling Labour Party and the opposition Conservatives in the polls before the recent party financing scandal.
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