Economic populism of the right has gone mainstream

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has remoulded the Tory party from the outside as the economic populism of the right has gone mainstream. Photograph: Getty Images How transformed would UK politics be if Nigel Farage's Reform UK party had won close to 100 seats in the recent election? Under the UK's first-past-the-post electoral system, the party took just five seats despite securing 14 per cent of the vote, the third largest vote share of any party. But if the vote had taken place under a more representative electoral system like Ireland's, things would look quite different. According to the Electoral…