On social media they call it “clout”. The term refers to the amount of influence a personality can command through their posts and followers who like and share their content. Among UK politicians, one man has more of it than all the others put together. Nigel Farage’s runaway popularity on TikTok is made all the more intriguing by his standing, not as a firebrand of the kind of politics that traditionally chimes with young voters on the activist left, but as conservative former banker, rarely seen out of a pinstripe suit. A video titled “Isn’t it about time we started…
