Farage, flags and Connolly: How the Right turned on the State

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In an airport hangar in Oxfordshire, Nigel Farage unveiled Reform UK's mass deportation plan. Farage pledged to tear up international treaties, build new removal centres, and strike deals with foreign countries in an effort to drive up returns at pace should he become PM. There was a dark message in his speech - that without his radical programme, Britain faces rising anger, even civil disorder.

Speaking at length about a political class and a legal class pitted against this action, Farage asked: "Whose side are you on?".

It follows a weekend in which Tory politicians have been condemning the British judicial system for convicting Lucy Connolly, who was jailed after calling on people to "set fire" to asylum hotels in the wake of the Southport attack.

When did the British Right turn on the British State? How did the conservative movement become so set on tearing down institutions rather than preserving them? Jon and Lewis discuss.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:09.1	This is a global player original podcast.
0:13.2	The mood in the country around this issue is a mix between total despair and rising anger.
0:26.2	And I would say this, that without action, without somehow the contract between the government
0:34.7	and the people being renewed, without some trust coming back,
0:41.0	then I fear deeply that that anger will grow.
0:45.1	In fact, I think there is now, as a result of this, a genuine threat to public order,
0:52.2	and that is the very last thing that we want.
0:55.2	That is Nigel Farage, launching operation, restoring justice,
1:01.7	reforms, big campaign against illegal immigration,
1:06.4	that he hopes will propel him from a party with four members of Parliament to becoming a majority,
1:14.2	and Nigel Farage as Prime Minister.
1:17.4	Farage wants to ape his great hero, Donald Trump, in enacting a mass deportation programme
1:23.7	across the UK. But is any of it realistic? And with Farage warning about civil disorder,
1:30.7	is it not his language, his rhetoric, his focus on this issue which promises to create the very
1:38.0	disorder he's warning against? Welcome to the newsagents.
1:47.3	The Newsagents.
1:49.2	It's John. It's Lewis.
1:53.9	And this is a speech that reform have been promising for much of the summer.
1:56.3	It was trailed in the papers at the weekend.
2:00.9	Farage and reform once again, showing they are very adroit, very adept at being able to control the media conversation, particularly when the government itself, for reasons much to our amusement,
2:06.0	I think John, have decided to basically be quiet for about pretty much everything this summer.
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