Thatcher showed she had seen people’s fears, and delivered what they wanted. What could a Farage government do?

In the conventional telling, the Tories were rescued by the Falklands War. But note how the polls were beginning to turn even before the Argentine invasion. The bourgeois and patriotic Britain with something it wanted to defend and hold on to, began to thank Mrs Thatcher for her evident progress in finally bringing inflation under control. “Our people”, in her words, saw that she had seen their fears, stood by them and delivered what they wanted. There is no chance Kemi Badenoch can do from oppo...