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What If Reform Wins

'Strongly recommend', Alastair Campbell on The Rest Is Politics

Peter Chappell

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English
Bloomsbury Continuum
30 April 2026
'a massive wake-up call' The Guardian

'a gripping and important book' Andrew Marr

'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

'a dazzling imagined account of Nigel Farage’s first year in Number Ten: hilarious, terrifying and totally believable... Spoiler alert: it doesn’t end well.'

Ferdinand Mount

A compulsive, chilling nonfiction thriller that imagines what might happen if Reform win a majority at the next general election.

At 10pm on 28th June 2029, exit polls predict that Nigel Farage will be the 60th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This is the story of what could happen next.

What If Reform Wins is a chilling and deeply researched scenario that takes us day-by-day, minute-by-minute through a world in which Reform has the opportunity to put their policies into practice, from deporting 600,000 people to leaving the ECHR, abandoning net zero and ending the BBC’s license fee.

How will people fight back against mass deportations and fracking?

And will this self-described ‘ill-disciplined pirate ship’ survive the rigors of government?

Drawing on dozens of new interviews, Peter Chappell, a reporter at The Times, explores a nation on a new and dystopian path.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Continuum
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 218mm,  Width: 144mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   350g
ISBN:   9781399433723
ISBN 10:   1399433725
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for What If Reform Wins: 'Strongly recommend', Alastair Campbell on The Rest Is Politics

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 *


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