Welcome to The i Paper’s new opinion series exploring the extraordinary ascent of a growing power in British politics: the Rise of Reform.

• Nigel Farage is supremely effective. But he’s not done yet
• Prime Minister Farage would probably make you worse off – and this is why

I am partly voting for Reform to give the establishment a bloody nose.

When the dorks and midwits of our clapped-out ruling class say it’s too risky to take a punt on Reform, I laugh.

On their watch, Britain’s borders have been eroded, our high streets have withered and the economy teeters on a cliff edge.

What arrogance for the parties that made a mess of the nation to now fret that Reform are dangerous “amateurs”.

Give me an upstart party with fresh ideas over the knackered bureaucracies of Labour and the Tories any day of the week.

But mainly, I’m voting for Reform to restore working people to the heart of politics.

“But Farage is a former City trader who went to posh Dulwich College!”, the centrist dads will wail. True, and he’s still more in touch with the country than you are.

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