Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Daniel Trilling.

For decades in much of Europe, far-right opinion has had electoral expression in political

parties that can command millions of votes. But until relatively recently, in Britain,

anti-migrant and racist views, though prevalent, did not result in electoral vehicles with

truly mass support, and the British

Conservative Party had long been successful at canalising far-right sentiment into their

own political project.

This all changed with the rise first of UKIP and then its successes the Brexit Party and

reform who can now commanders agree of popular support that earlier political formation such as the National

Front and the British National Party could not. Coupled with electoral success, Britain has also

seen a major increase in far-right protest and violence, with 2025 seeing the biggest far-right

rally in Britain's history after a summer of flag-waving protests that were themselves preceded by violent

attacks on mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers. To talk about how we got here to a situation

where the most plausible outcome at the next general election is a reform-led government,

I spoke to Daniel Trilling, who has spent more than 15 years researching and writing about

the far right

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