{"id":489112,"date":"2026-03-22T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489112\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:31:11","slug":"reform-and-farage-are-losing-support-there-are-two-key-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489112\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform and Farage are losing support. There are two key r&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">But to keep hold of the true believers, they dare not moderate too much. There is, of course, great value to the party in having GB News pump out propaganda all day, and in its ability to dominate the narrative on Elon Musk\u2019s X platform. But there is also a cost to becoming overly preoccupied by the concerns of the most fervent. The arrival of an even more extreme alternative, in Rupert Lowe\u2019s openly racist \ufeffRestore Britain\ufeff party, is also dragging Reform further rightwards as it tries to avoid accusations of milquetoast acquiescence to the concerns of woke liberals. Having successfully destroyed the cordon sanitaire around British politics, it is finding it hard to erect a new one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But to keep hold of the true believers, they dare not moderate too much. There is, of course,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,633,229,39237,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-489112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-politics","tag-reform","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}