Sep 6, 2026 – 9.55amForget wearing his heart on his sleeve: Gary Taggart wears his love for Nigel Farage all over, right down to the custom Reform UK sneakers he ordered off Temu.Clad in a Union Jack track shirt and Farage Number 10 football shirt (you can get yours too for £40 at the official Reform shop), Taggart is one of the more enthusiastic members of Farage’s “People’s Army” who made their way to Birmingham on the weekend for Reform UK’s second annual conference.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Andrew TillettEurope correspondentAndrew Tillett is The Australian Financial Review’s correspondent for Europe, based in London. He was formerly foreign affairs and defence correspondent based in Canberra.Fetching latest articles
Farage’s devoted ‘people’s army’ stands firm despite scandals
Reform UK’s annual conference was meant to show British voters and business it can be trusted with power. True believers turned up, but the jury is still out.
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