Reform UK has just swept councils across England and made significant gains in devolved elections. How did a party of the radical right get here – and who in the British establishment helped clear the path? Peter Geoghegan is joined by journalist and author Daniel Trilling to discuss his new book, If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable. They unpack whether what we’re seeing is a genuine realignment of the British right, the role mainstream politicians and media have played in normalising far-right ideas, and what comes next after Reform’s breakthrough.
Daniel Trilling (en), Mainstreaming of Far Right Ideas (en), Peter Geoghegan (en), The Far Right (en), The Far Right in Europe (en), UK Politics (en)
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