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Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media

Newspapers & magazines | The Guardian · Daniel Boffey Chief reporter · last updated

Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls

“It was Trumpian,” said Mark Mansfield, editor and CEO of Nation.Cymru, a small English-language Welsh news service. “It has perhaps given us a flavour of how a Reform UK government would behave towards the media.”

Mansfield is referring to what he described as an attempt by a figure at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party to “bully” his publication, but he believes a wider lesson might be learned.

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