Farage vs. the Man With the Trash Can on His Head

Nigel Farage, center, eating ice cream, in Clacton-on-Sea.Credit...

Photographs by Harry Mitchell

Ms. Gold, who writes about British politics and culture, and Mr. Mitchell, a photographer based in London, reported from Clacton-on-Sea, England.

I spent the first Saturday in August in Clacton-on-Sea, a fading seaside town on the east coast of England and the seat of Nigel Farage, the polarizing leader of the far-right Reform U.K., who was........

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