Farage launches controversial new newsletter

Nigel Farage has launched a personal Substack newsletter, with a debut essay arguing that the British state has become institutionally biased against white people across housing, healthcare, education, policing, the military and the workplace.

The Reform UK leader and MP for Clacton said he was launching the Substack so he could set out his views in his own words and avoid them being “twisted and misrepresented”, promising to publish a long essay each month.

The first instalment is not a short read. Running to more than 5,000 words across nine themed sections,it is closer to a policy pamphlet than a blog post, working methodically through what Farage describes as evidence of anti-white discrimination before attaching a specific Reform UK pledge to each area.

The Substack is notable for several reasons. It is unusual for a figure many now regard as a potential future Prime Minister to bypass interviews and press releases and instead self-publish long-form policy essays directly to subscribers, unmediated by journalists or party communications staff.

The approach mirrors the direct-to-audience publishing favoured by some US politicians, and gives Farage a platform he controls entirely, free of editorial pushback or the right of reply.

The essay is also unusual in how directly controversial it seems, with the title leaving little room for ambiguity: “Britain is a Two Tier State – Against White People.” This is a deliberately provocative framing of the “two-tier” phrase Farage and allies have used repeatedly over the past year.

Across the piece, Farage argues that the 2010 Equality Act has institutionalised what he calls “anti-whiteness” through its public sector equality duty and provisions for “positive action”.

He claims white candidates are disadvantaged in recruitment across parts of the public sector, that social housing has been redistributed away from white British residents, that the NHS prioritises minority groups and migrants in ways he says harm white patients, and that policing has been captured by race-focused ideology.

He links the last point to the high-profile case of murdered student Henry Nowak, who was handcuffed by officers as he lay dying after his killer claimed to be the victim of a racist attack.

On policy, the essay restates and expands several Reform commitments: Farage said the party would evict all foreign nationals from social housing if it gained power, and repeated his vow to repeal the Equality Act.

Other pledges include banning DEI practices across the public sector, capping the recruitment of foreign doctors, scrapping “decolonisation” funding in universities, and enacting a “Policing (Equal Treatment) Act” in a Reform government’s first 100 days.

The response has split sharply along predictable political lines.

Reform MP Suella Braverman said she was “very proud” to read the piece, adding that she believes white people are treated more unfairly than non-white people. Critics were scathing.

The MP for Clacton faced criticism over the essay, drawing comparisons to a modern-day Enoch Powell.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy rejected Farage’s framing outright, telling Sky News he should take his “nasty hate and anger and division somewhere else”.

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