Economic policy is one thing Nigel Farage can’t crib from the Donald Trump playbook | Rafael Behr

<p>The Maga model, based on the US’s exorbitant market privileges, can’t be imported to Britain. That’s going to be a problem for Reform UK</p><p>Nigel Farage loves a gamble. In <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/29/purple-revolution-nigel-farage-self-pity-nick-cohen">his 2015 memoir</a>, The Purple Revolution, a whole chapter is dedicated to the then Ukip leader’s appetite for risk, how he indulged it in the City and how that prepared him for a career in politics.</p><p>He boasts of the time he “lost a seven-figure sum of money in the course of a morning on the zinc market” before breezing off to the pub. He waxes nostalgic about the halcyon days of freewheeling finance, before “ghastly regulators” spoiled the fun; when “terrible cock-ups” could be written off because “decimal points and all those zeros can be tricky after a three-hour lunch”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/05/economic-policy-nigel-farage-donald-trump-playbook">Continue reading...</a>