Disillusioned UK Car Workers Turn to Reform Party Amid Economic Shifts

‘Capitalism is dying’: in Luton, these former car workers have a moral tale for our times | Aditya Chakrabortty

Abandoned by the company they worked for, let down by Labour and their unions – now they watch their friends turn to Reform for answers After everything, why would anyone still back Nigel Farage? In some of the comments below my piece last week about Reform UK, I spot the usual answers: Farage’s supporters are dim, racist, deplorable. Yet away from Westminster and the news cycle, Reform voters are being manufactured – not with headlines or crypto funds but through the failure of institutions ...

By Aditya Chakrabortty