The populist in Boris Johnson can see off Farage

Johnson knows how to squeeze Farage out of politics, and it would be rash to assume he can’t and won’t do it again by reaching into the populist toolkit | ✍️ Jameskirkup

Though circumstances seem ripe for an attack from the right, there are ways the PM can avoid being outflankedritish politics and economics in 2022 look ominously likely to create the conditions in which right-wing populism will thrive. That means Boris Johnson’s problems are even bigger than they appear. But a populist surge could also, just possibly, offer him a path back to safety.

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