Posted on 12/09/2023 7:47:30 PM PST by RandFan
LONDON — Conservative MPs fear another season of their Nigel Farage nightmare is looming. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is trying — and failing — to calm their nerves.
Farage — once dubbed Mr. Brexit — is back in the British headlines as the star of primetime reality TV show “I’m a Celebrity Get me Out of Here.”
But as the former MEP gallivants in the Australian jungle, dodging snakes and drinking blended goat testicles, the latest upstart political party he founded is fast gaining support. A recent BMG Research poll put Reform UK in third place behind Labour and the Tories, on 11 per cent — its best-ever performance in surveys by that company.
Speculation is now growing that Farage will use his TV platform as a springboard for a triumphant return to the political scene next year, leading Reform UK into a general election expected by November 2024.
The Conservatives “should be scared,” said James Johnson, a former No. 10 Downing Street pollster who now runs his own polling company, JL Partners.
Johnson said there were “lots of socially conservative voters out there who voted Tory in 2019, and now — especially on immigration — don’t see any progress.”
In response to the growing threat, Sunak this week announced draconian new visa rules to cut legal migration numbers by 300,000 a year, significantly raising the pay threshold for skilled workers arriving from abroad, and banning care staff from bringing their families to the U.K.
In the most contentious move, he also raised the salary threshold for spouses’ visas — raising fears that thousands of lower-paid families will be torn apart.
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Farage is in the FINAL of the reality TV show he's on!
Millions are voting for him on TV. It's incredible.
Donald J. Trump did “The Apprentice” and the word tonight is that Nigel made the final cut for the series.
Yes he’s in the final 2. Amazing.
He had to eat a load of fish eyes the other night 🤮
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