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Watch Out, U.K. Conservatives. Nigel Farage Is Coming After You.
His new Brexit Party seeks seats in the European Parliament, but his larger ambition is realigning British politics.
Still haunting Conservatives.
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Ever since a 2016 referendum put the U.K. on the path to leaving the European Union, British voters increasingly identify more with Leave or Remain than with political parties. That is a seismic shift, and only one party is positioned to capitalize on it if, as seems likely, the U.K. participates in the European Parliament elections on May 23.
That’s the brand-new Brexit Party led by the anti-EU militant Nigel Farage. But it’s Farage’s longer game that should worry Theresa May’s Conservative Party.