Keir Starmer’s only hope of staying in power may be if Nigel Farage and Donald Trump fall out too
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SIR Keir Starmer knows what he will be fighting at the next election, he just doesn’t know who or how. The Prime Minister believes it is inevitable he will defend his shallow majority against a right-wing populist force that has a significant chance of sweeping him from power.
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Some around him believe the odds of Nigel Farage being the next PM are as high as 3/1. Even if Reform fell well short of that, they could still decimate Starmer’s Parliamentary rump in the urban North, Wales and forgotten coastal Britain. While left-wing pundits and well-heeled podcasters will scoff at a 25 per cent chance of a warm-ale swilling, mustard- corduroy wearing revolutionary crossing the threshold of No10, beware false prophets.
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They used to say the same about Brexit, then Boris and most of them seem almost concussed after they convinced themselves Trump could be stopped not once but twice. Their hectoring every time Farage, or one his merry men appears on TV, would suggest that they are struggling to adapt to the new reality, so far.
![[Nigel Farage is likely kissing goodbye to the hypothetical £100million donation dangled by Elon Musk]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/w8media-james-whale-mbe-joined-895005169.jpg?strip=all&w=746)
Around the democratic world, Starmer’s election victory last year looks like an anomaly. Trump is not alone in riding a wave of anger at the lethal combination of inflation and a long overdue wake-up call to the realities of that glorious harmony provided by decades of open-door migration.
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Canada will likewise pivot right as soon as the voters are given the chance by the autumn, and Labour’s sister party in Australia is on the ropes ahead of voting Down Under. The old order in France and Germany are in for a very bumpy ride before Britain goes again to the polls in a few years’ time.
