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From India to Turkey, Trump to Farage, populism has gathered pace in the last decade. Why now? On Wednesday 28 April 2010, 20 months had passed since the financial crash of 2008, and there were eight days left until the UK general election. Soon, the reins of government would be taken by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, committed to a programme of austerity that would still be making its effects felt a decade later. But for another fortnight, Gordon Brown would be prime minister, and he was on a walkabout in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. It was there that he was introduced to 65-year-old Gillian Duffy. Surrounded by men in suits, and accompanied by the snap of cameras, Duffy ran through a mess of grievances – about the tax she had to pay on her pension, the state of the national finances, and a benefits system she claimed paid out to people who “aren’t vulnerable” while denying help to those who needed it. She reached a climax with a single broken sentence about immigration: “You can’t say anything about the immigrants… but all these easterns European what are coming in, where are they flocking from?” Still wearing a radio microphone pinned to his lapel by Sky News, Brown then got back in his car, and let rip. “She’s just this sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be a Labour voter,” he said. There is a leftwing version of populism. But it is the rightwing iteration that has spread around the world I spoke to voters responsible for Farage’s surge. One talked warmly of Margaret Thatcher Continue reading…
