{"id":575383,"date":"2025-11-17T03:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575383\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T03:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:29:14","slug":"farage-is-gunning-for-brexit-2-0-can-he-be-stopped-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575383\/","title":{"rendered":"Farage is gunning for Brexit 2.0. Can he be stopped? \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month the human rights group Liberty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk\/issue\/almost-300-organisations-express-support-for-echr-on-75th-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coordinated a statement<\/a> from almost 300 organizations \u2014 from homeless charities to veterans groups \u2014 calling for a \u201cfull-throated\u201d defense of the ECHR and the Human Rights Act, and warning that the way the convention had been used as a political scapegoat over recent years had had \u201cdevastating real world consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of those signatories, Naomi Smith, chief executive of the Best for Britain campaign group, said the group plans to reconvene after Mahmood\u2019s speech. Best for Britain was set up after Brexit and unsuccessfully campaigned for a second referendum. \u201cWe\u2019re certainly not twiddling our thumbs,\u201d Smith said, but she stressed the group is also \u201cgiving the government the space to land in the right place\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reverse Midas touch\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Allies of Starmer see Labour\u2019s former human rights lawyer leader as one of their most authoritative voices when it comes to making the case for the ECHR. <\/p>\n<p>But other progressives fear a man whose party is streets behind Farage in the polls and beset by factionalism could be an encumbrance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2239132746-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7498131\"  \/>\u201cWe\u2019re already making the case,\u201d Green Party Deputy Leader Mothin Ali said. \u201cWe\u2019re already campaigning to make sure that the positives are talked about.\u201d | Finnbarr Webster\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m totally honest, I think [Starmer] is a liability for any cause right now because of how poorly he\u2019s performing, and how unpopular he is,\u201d the Green\u2019s Ali, whose party wants to challenge Labour from the left, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s pushing the Greens\u2019 charismatic new leader Zack Polanski as a strong advocate, pointing out the success of the Brexit campaign\u2019s willingness to get populist under both Farage and Boris Johnson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were both very charismatic figures and both were very populist-style campaigns that were easily digestible,\u201d Ali said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you always need a plurality of voices in any winning campaign,\u201d Smith of Best for Britain said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month the human rights group Liberty coordinated a statement from almost 300 organizations \u2014 from homeless&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[5108,5109,802,748,30,23522,33,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,4582,40,807,384,47,9891,48,60422,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-575383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-asylum","9":"tag-boris-johnson","10":"tag-brexit","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-david-cameron","14":"tag-elections","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-european-union","19":"tag-great-britain","20":"tag-human-rights","21":"tag-immigration","22":"tag-keir-starmer","23":"tag-nigel-farage","24":"tag-poll","25":"tag-referendum","26":"tag-rights","27":"tag-shabana-mahmood","28":"tag-space","29":"tag-uk","30":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115562923669423627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}