{"id":367555,"date":"2026-08-05T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/life-after-farage-why-some-in-reform-are-thinking-the-unthinkable\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:00:07","slug":"life-after-farage-why-some-in-reform-are-thinking-the-unthinkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/life-after-farage-why-some-in-reform-are-thinking-the-unthinkable\/","title":{"rendered":"Life after Farage? Why some in Reform are thinking the UNTHINKABLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/msYbvVgAEH8\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Life after Farage? Why some in Reform are thinking the UNTHINKABLE\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msYbvVgAEH8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Just a few months ago, Nigel Farage and Reform UK looked unstoppable. After sweeping the local elections and topping opinion polls, many believed Reform was on course for government. But has the momentum already begun to fade?<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>A string of controversies &#8211; including police investigations, questions over party finances, and a \u00a35 million donation from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire &#8211; has put Reform under growing pressure. With the party slipping in the polls, are these scandals finally cutting through with voters, or is this just another setback Farage will survive?<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of The Fourcast, Matt Frei is joined by Tim Ross from Politico, former Reform UK spokesperson Gawain Towler and Labour strategist Claire Ainsley to examine what&#8217;s gone wrong for Reform, whether Andy Burnham has given Labour a route back to power, why the Greens are also losing ground, and what the latest polling tells us about the future of British politics.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few months ago, Nigel Farage and Reform UK looked unstoppable. After sweeping the local elections and topping opinion polls, many believed Reform was on course for government. But has the momentum already begun to fade? [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe] A string of controversies &#8211; including police investigations, questions over party finances, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-367555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Life after Farage? 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