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What’s behind the sudden rise of the Brexit Party?
The growth of Nigel Farage’s party is remarkable, but not unstoppable, argues JOHN REES
NOT STUPID: Nigel Farage at a press conference in London

BY any metric the rise of the Brexit Party is phenomenal. In a matter of weeks the party has held rally after rally with thousands in attendance, and notably in working-class areas like Newport and Peterborough.

It has every chance of getting the largest share of the vote in the Euro elections. And it has a social media following already in the hundreds of thousands.

These facts are all the more remarkable because the electoral fortunes of the populist right were in a catastrophic state in the wake of the EU referendum.

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