{"id":222711,"date":"2026-04-30T00:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=222711"},"modified":"2026-04-30T00:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:57:06","slug":"its-time-for-farage-to-choose-between-a-big-and-small-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=222711","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for Farage to choose between a big and small state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK can\u2019t duck the tough choices any longer, says Eliot Wilson Some had hailed it as a symbol of a new era of politics: when Reform UK issued its manifesto for the 2024 general election, with its impressive strike rate of eight photographs of Nigel Farage in a slender 28 pages&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/its-time-for-farage-to-choose-between-a-big-and-small-state\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK can\u2019t duck the tough choices any longer, says Eliot Wilson Some had hailed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222711-its-time-for-farage-to-choose-between-a-big-and-small-state.jpg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222711-its-time-for-farage-to-choose-between-a-big-and-small-state-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222711-its-time-for-farage-to-choose-between-a-big-and-small-state-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222711-its-time-for-farage-to-choose-between-a-big-and-small-state-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222711-its-time-for-farage-to-choose-between-a-big-and-small-state-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222711-its-time-for-farage-to-choose-between-a-big-and-small-state.jpg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222711-its-time-for-farage-to-choose-between-a-big-and-small-state.jpg",1200,800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222711-its-time-for-farage-to-choose-between-a-big-and-small-state-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222711-its-time-for-farage-to-choose-between-a-big-and-small-state-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222711-its-time-for-farage-to-choose-between-a-big-and-small-state-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}