James Buchan, a former fisherman in the Scottish port of Peterhead, has swallowed his hostility toward Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage.
The 38-year-old’s longstanding distrust of the populist Brexit campaigner has been eclipsed by his fears for the local economy, which he said had been hollowed out by decades of ruinous British government policy.
This week, he plans to vote for Reform for the first time, seeing the party’s pledges to maximise oil and gas production in the North Sea and restrict the access of European fishing boats as the best chance of reviving the town’s fortunes.
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