By day 31 of the war in the Middle East, Nigel Farage had become somewhat less vocal about the closeness of his relationship with Donald Trump. Yet when the questions inevitably came about the conflict’s potentially catastrophic impact on Britain’s economy, the Reform leader was forced to grapple with what has suddenly become the primary barrier to people voting for his party: Donald Trump. Reform’s Trump problem is particularly stark among British women, with 25% of those polled last week listing “Farage’s support for Trump” as the primary reason they would not vote for his party. I’m not going to pretend I don’t know him. “I don’t think we should take literally everything right now that Donald Trump says,” Farage said on Tuesday.

Source: The Guardian March 31, 2026 21:21 UTC