Nigel Farage, Reform and the Future of British Politics

When Nigel Farage accepted the Spectator’s Newcomer of the Year
Award, he suggested that his Reform UK party could get hundreds
more MPs at the next election. In this week’s episode Amol and
Nick discuss whether that’s possible with BBC political editor
Chris Mason and Tim Montgomerie, who founded the Conservative
Home website, but recently left the Tory Party to join Reform UK.


He explains why he decided to defect, how his friends in the
Conservative Party have reacted and what he thinks can be learned
from Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election.


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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson who
are both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Amol was
the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of
the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University
Challenge. Nick has presented the Today programme since 2015, he
was the BBC’s political editor for ten years before that and also
previously worked as ITV’s political editor.


This episode was made by Lewis Vickers with Nadia Gyane and Molly
Higgins. Digital production was by Joe Wilkinson. The technical
producer was Mike Regaard. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The
executive producer is Owenna Griffiths.