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What If Reform Wins

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What If Reform Wins

By: Peter Chappell
Narrated by: Peter Chappell
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Summary

 Bloomsbury presents What If Reform Wins, written and read by Peter Chappell.

*This audiobook includes an exclusive conversation between the author and journalist John Merrick*

'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.©2026 Peter Chappell (P)2026 ID Audio Elections & Political Process Europe Great Britain Political Science Politics & Government United States World Funny Witty United Kingdom
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Critic reviews

a massive wake-up call
Brilliant.
By turns entertaining and downright terrifying
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)
Chappell's power of mimicry is impressive
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.
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.
a gripping and important book for anyone in politics (Andrew Marr)
my toilet paper is worth more than what the book is written on
All stars
Most relevant
In some ways this is the best of a bad situation and slightly less depressing than 'If Russia Wins'.
There are a couple of leaps but 'events' are always likely to happen as not. Certainly worth listening to for no other reason than to give collective heads a solid wobble and get moving to prevent this dystopia.

A chilling vision of things to come

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The book painted a chilling scenario of the potential outcome of a farage led government. Based on UK law and precedent it showed how stated reform policy and attitudes could easily cripple the country and lead to a truss style catastrophe on steroids. It was only let down by the interview between Chappel and John Merrick where he appears to row back on his analysis and predictions painting it as more of a story. It's well read, well researched and gives a well reasoned perspective on why farage and his coven of Tory rejects should never be allowed near government.

Chilling view of an extreme right wing UK.

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So where is the interview with John Merrick that is promised in the title details?

Where is the interview?

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A thoughtful alt history novel with a nod to 1935’s “It can’t happen here”

Scary!

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Really gripping read with great insight and vivid detail. The book contains scenarios that are as believable as they are terrifying. This book should read by as many people, of all political persuasions as possible.

Scary and possible

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