“What I’m really calling for is a political revolt,” said Nigel Farage as he announced his surprise re-entry into frontline politics at a noisy campaign launch in the faded seaside town of Clacton. In a trice, reported Fox News, the “maverick populist leader” sent “shock waves through the British general election”. Farage – who has taken leadership of the upstart party Reform UK, and is contesting a
