Peter Chappell is a reporter at The Times, having previously worked with Manchester Evening News and the BBC. He has written for The Times, the Guardian, Sky News, Prospect Magazine and various local papers. His writing for The Times has led to the preservation of Covent Garden’s historic gas lamps, a Channel Island not being cut off from the British mainland, and threats from the captain of an oligarch’s superyacht. In his career so far, he has interviewed Amazon explorers, clean air campaigners, and Heston Blumenthal. He was born in Warrington, partly raised in Northern Ireland and now lives in London.
a massive wake-up call * The Guardian * Brilliant. * Daniel Finkelstein * By turns entertaining and downright terrifying * The Telegraph * This is terrifically rich territory for a book... a lively and often witty political thriller that both is and isn't fiction, sketching the imagined arc of a Reform government from triumph to disaster -- Gaby Hinsliff * The Guardian * Chappell's power of mimicry is impressive * The Times * What If Reform Wins is a dazzling imagined account of Nigel Farage’s first year in Number Ten: hilarious, terrifying and totally believable. As a counterfactual, it ranks alongside Robert Harris’s Fatherland and When William Came, Saki’s vision of Britain under the Kaiser. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t end well. * Ferdinand Mount * Farage is Britain’s new prime minister. Nirvana or nightmare? Whatever our reaction, we all need to take this scenario very seriously, as Peter Chappell’s invigorating book does. * Anthony Seldon *