, Columnist
A British-French Alliance Is No Longer Fantasy
An odd (populist) couple.
Photo illustration: Henry Nicholls/Pierro Cruciatti/Getty Images; TGTS
Picture the 2026 scene: French Prime Minister Jordan Bardella and British PM Nigel Farage, fresh from winning snap elections on anti-handout, anti-immigration and anti-Europe platforms, advocate a new entente cordiale between their two countries with the support of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Unlikely? Perhaps. But increasingly possible.
If the recent meeting between the two far-right leaders proved anything, it’s that France’s National Rally and the UK Reform party have never been so close to power and so vocal about forging a continental “patriotic” alliance made in MAGA heaven — maybe one day encompassing Germany’s AfD.