Helen Lewis
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1,139 appearances
8 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Jun
Helen Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But I think in a lot of ways, the worst thing that could possibly ever have happened to Nigel Farage was getting elected to parliament on his eighth attempt, because that and the various scandals that have blown up around him, we keep coming back to the five million pound donation, which he is still to this day saying he was under no obligation to declare and he could have spent it on anything he wanted to.
And it's none of anyone else's business.
That and all of the outside jobs that he now has to put in the register of interest so we're aware of just how much time he's spending on everything else and how much money he's raking in from crypto and cameo and all of these kind of dodgy side gigs that he's doing.
All of these things serve to make him look like an establishment politician in the eyes of people who have decided, as you were saying, Matt, that's the ongoing narrative at the moment, is we don't like establishment politicians anymore.
And I'm thinking, oh, right.
I think, no, I think it was that, but I think that appealed to a lot of people because he felt like he was the outsider and he was coming in and giving a bloody nose.
I mean, all those speeches he used to give when he was an MEP where he was...
incredibly rude to various sort of Belgian figures, which were then clipped up.
I mean, it was very early on.
We'll talk about this in a bit.
But for YouTube and for social media, that was his kind of appeal, that he was this upstart coming in.
And he hasn't got that.
Rupert Lowe has stolen not only a significant proportion of the people voting for him, but his clothes as well, effectively, that he is now coming in.
Again, this is extraordinary how he's done this.
Rupert Lowe is your classic kind of red trousered kind of Tory countryman.
But he really has taken the whole shtick and turned it into someone who is not only further to the right, but feels like more of an anti-establishment outsider.
And Farage has got to find a way of polling that.
He's got probably, unless there is a snap general election call, which I think is probably very unlikely, he's got another three or four years to get through this as that man in Westminster who has somehow still got to convince us all that he is an outsider.
She would definitely give him an easy go.
I think it's really interesting, the press conference thing, is to come back to what you were saying about parties being permanently on campaign mode.
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