Nigel Farage on Monday announced that he would return to frontline British politics as leader of the Reform party and run for a seat in the election next month, scrapping his previously stated position of skipping the race in order to focus on supporting Donald Trump.
“I’ve changed my mind, it is allowed, you know!” Farage told a hastily arranged press conference.
The GB News host has previously made seven failed attempts to win a U.K. parliamentary seat. He nevertheless played a major role campaigning for Britain to leave the European Union and his populist, anti-immigration Brexit Party—now known as Reform UK—is considered a threat to the incumbent Conservative government by potentially dividing the vote on the right and aiding the left-wing Labour Party’s return to power.