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Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffeehouse Shots. I'm Katie Balls

and I'm joined by James Fisifin, Patrick O'Flynn, political commentator regularly for coffeehouse

and former UKIP MEP. Now this is the week that the Brexit Party officially changed

its name to reform UK. And this harrows a new chapter for Nigel Farage with the party, where he

plans to campaign for changes to the voting system, the House of Lords, the BBC and various

other institutions. So is this Nigel Farage comeback? Are we about to see a new

force in UK politics that's going to shake things up in the way the Brexit party did? Or is there

not going to be so much a bang as a whimper? Patrick, you've written about this on Coffee House.

How do you think at this party, perhaps it's a new party, it's a reformed version

of a party, is going to change the UK political landscape? Well, I think it's not a bad brand name

to have at the moment. You know, obviously the Brexit party was a redundant brand, rendered

completely obsolete when even Nigel Farage had to admit Boris Johnson had honoured the guts of Brexit.

So reform, you know, no one could say this country is in a position where we don't need reform.

It's modern sounding and it's moderate.

But then again, it's the permission to use the name, which I think is slight turn up for the books,

because I think they were thinking they were going to get turned down. It's arrived at a slightly awkward time for Nigel in particular,

because if you look what's happening across in Washington, you know, with his, what might be viewed

as his political, you know, kinfolk, that doesn't look like any kind of reform, does it? And I think it's a tricky one for Nigel and

the downsides of his friendship with Trump are suddenly magnified. And very quickly, there's a couple

of other things which aren't quite in alignment either. Lockdown angst is perhaps less than it

was when the second lockdown was declared because we have the new

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