Even those of us who regard the prospect of Nigel Farage entering Downing Street as what St John Newman calls a vision to dizzy and appal should take the possibility of a Reform government seriously

Perhaps the best way to understand all of this is to recognise that the leadership of Reform UK is ultimately brought together not so much by a common goal or a common positive philosophy (let alone by a common positive theology), but rather by opposition to a common enemy. That common enemy is post-enlightenment liberalism and its many intellectual offsprings – from the economic liberalism of Adam Smith and Hayek, through Popperian and Oakeshottian conceptions of a liberal society, to today’s left-liberal, green-liberal and woke-liberal ideologies. Christian and non-Christian Reform UK leaders alike are motivated by a desire to anathematise and eliminate all of these varieties of liberalism.

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