Far-right Reform UK becoming a serious contender for power

I believe that alarm bells ought to be ringing in various quarters of Britain, as last week’s Reform UK conference in Birmingham attracted so much attention and in excess of 10,000 attendees — deserved in the minds of some and undeserved in the minds of others — in a divided and polarized not-so-United Kingdom. In the season of party political conferences, the spotlight is rightly focused on the vocal new kid on the block, Reform UK, led by the colorful friend of Donald Trump, broadcaster-politician Nigel Farage.