Nigel Farage rolls into Hull like an old rocker on a comeback tour. Last week, he’d played the global right’s Glastonbury, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, where he was “in conversation” with Jordan Peterson on a bill topped by JD Vance, President Trump and Steve Bannon, who performed what appeared to be a Nazi salute. Then he’d gone straight to Cornwall for a Reform mini-conference to recruit ground troops for May’s council elections, which was angrily protested by antifa, and the head of security, according to Farage, “got his teeth punched out”.
Now to Hull for a stadium gig. Reform UK people are buzzing. Not only have 2,300 people paid (a nominal sum to stop protesters grabbing free seats and no-showing) to
