Donald Trump still appears in the ascendancy as he reshapes the global trading system and rips up the norms of American diplomacy. In Britain, however, the U.S. president’s rise is complicating the electoral path for his biggest cheerleader, Nigel Farage.
The Brexit-campaigner’s populist Reform U.K. party held a Trump-style arena rally in Birmingham on Friday to launch campaigning ahead of local elections on May 1. The event in the country’s second-biggest city saw Farage driven on stage in a pothole-fixer — a nod to Britain’s crumbling infrastructure — and firing a T-shirt cannon into the cheering crowd. Reform says it sold some 10,000 tickets, an unusually large gathering for British politics.
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