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Status anxiety

Nigel Farage’s class war

He's not motivated by winning. He's trying to mess with David Cameron's head

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

I initially thought Nigel Farage had made a mistake in unveiling Mark Reckless on the final day of his party conference. Wouldn’t it have been more disruptive to announce the news during the Conservative party conference?

But after spending the first half of the week with the Tories in Birmingham, I now think it was the right decision.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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