Political choices are rarely cost-free. When parties promise large tax cuts, sweeping spending reductions and tougher rules, voters should ask a simple question: if I support the promise, am I also prepared for the part of the policy that lands on me? “Turkeys voting for Christmas” is one of politics’ oldest insults. It is usually thrown at voters assumed to be supporting something against their own interests. The phrase can be patronising, because voters.

Nigel Farage has spent years diagnosing what he says is wrong with Britain. Governing is a different test. Budgets, delivery, trade-offs and unintended consequences do not respond to slogans. Could Reform actually turn certainty into administration? Nigel Farage has one of the clearest political gifts in modern Britain: he can turn a complicated grievance into a sentence people remember. Immigration is too high. Westminster is broken. The establishment.