Farage is pulling Reform into the politics of male grievance

Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson and Donald Trump are not random names in Farage’s orbit. They point to a politics that treats women’s equality as part of what has gone wrong.

Trading in misogyny and resentment

Farage has spent the past two years placing himself alongside men and movements that trade on resentment towards women and contempt for feminism. In 2024, he described Andrew Tate as an “important voice” for “emasculated” men, defended “male culture”, and then told a rally in Clacton that he was part of a “similar phenomenon” among young men. In 2025, he appeared at Jordan Peterson’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference, another hub for anti-“woke” politics framed around male authority, order and backlash. Farage was choosing his audience and signalling the politics he wanted Reform to speak to.

That choice sits comfortably with Farage’s broader instincts. He has long treated his closeness to Donald Trump as a badge of honour, and Trump’s politics have always depended in part on public cruelty towards women, on humiliation, on the sneer. Farage may express it in a British register, but the overlap is very real. The point here is not that Reform has published some explicit “men’s rights” manifesto, it’s that its leader keeps reaching for the same symbols, the same grievances and the same cultural alliances that see women as inferior to men.

Reform’s official language, though, is more careful. Its contract talks about marriage tax breaks, stay-at-home parenting, single-sex spaces and opposition to “gender ideology”. That is how these politics are usually laundered. The sharper edge appears elsewhere, in Farage’s praise for Tate, in his Peterson links, in the wider habit of presenting men as the injured party in a world that has supposedly gone too far for women. Women should take that seriously. A party moving in that direction cannot be trusted to treat women’s equality as a settled democratic fact rather than one more argument to reopen.

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