‘We are at the start of a new era of stilted social relations, endless jobsworths protecting themselves from liability, grindingly rigid hiring rules, untold chilling effects, and general sclerosis in the arteries of capitalism. “The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state,” said Tacitus. To which I would add: the more numerous the lawyers, the more inured the people.’

‘It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say that same forces that saw the young turn out en masse for the far left Jeremy Corbyn in 2017 have begun to circle around Farage. Like Corbyn, he is an anti-politics figure for an anti-politics age. Like Corbyn, he scandalises the Westminster establishment.’