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Why Nigel Farage will be Britain's next Prime Minister, writes Andrew Marr

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08.05.2026

First takeaway from the results so far?

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Britain is on course for a Reform government with Nigel Farage as Prime Minister.

It’s not inevitable, of course.

There are about 171 weeks or nearly 40 months before a general election must happen, and life is coming at us fast. But I’m struck by how desperate people in other parties are to write off what seems like the bleeding obvious – Reform has peaked, they tell one another; the public have seen through Farage, they sagely nod… Let’s all of us serious folk move on.

Meanwhile, quietly, remorselessly, Reform keeps advancing. It isn’t politics as usual: Nigel Farage tells LBC that he’s stopped in the street by women pleading, save us, save us. This is a popular revolt not just against politics but against daily life inside a flailing economy and a........

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