Global Anti-Woke Movement: MAGA-Style Populist Party Rises in a Britain Ravaged by Climate Alarmist Policies

A new conservative political party is rising in Britain, and it echoes President Donald Trump’s success in the United States, according to a veteran political observer who has lived in both countries.

“I know the [United Kingdom] and Europe seem lost and adrift, but there are great movements happening at the local level in the grassroots to change the direction,” Sarah Elliott, director of the Special Relationship Unit at the Prosperity Institute, told The Daily Signal. “Don’t give up on your allies overseas.”

The Prosperity Institute advances prosperity in the United Kingdom by championing national sovereignty, free markets, the rule of law, family values, and cheap and abundant energy.

Elliott, whose official title is Lady Elliott of Mickle Fell because her husband serves in the House of Lords, has worked in politics on both sides of the Atlantic. Speaking with The Daily Signal, she addressed Trump’s budding trade deal with Britain, the economic damage of “net zero” climate alarmist policies, and her hope for the future of British politics.

She highlighted Reform UK, the political party led by Nigel Farage, which made big gains in the English elections earlier this month. Reform won 677 of around 1,600 contested seats, taking eight local councils from the Conservative Party.

Elliott praised Reform as “the youngest political party in the UK” with “more members now than the oldest political party in the UK, the Conservatives.”

Reform is “becoming the populist party, the ‘Britain First,’ ‘Make Britain Great Again’ party,” and it attracts voters from both the Labour and Conservative parties, she said.

While Reform focuses on immigration, it also opposes the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement and climate policies. “They’re coming out very strongly now against net zero,” Elliot noted.

She faulted the Conservative Party for failing to stand on conservative values, particularly on climate issues.

“They’re just very left of center,” Elliott said of the Conservatives. “They weren’t conservative and so they were not an alternative to Labour,” the leftist party.

“We see energy prices over there that are five times higher than the United States,” she said, referring to Britain. (The International Energy Agency released data last year showing Britain having the highest energy prices in the world, roughly five times the U.S. price.)

Elliott attributed the higher prices to climate alarmist crackdowns. “We’ve shut all of our coal power plants,” she said. “We stopped drilling for our natural fossil fuels in the North Sea. We don’t frack anymore. The environmental lobby has been incredibly persuasive to the public, but it’s become a groupthink in the UK and monolithic thinking that all political parties until recently embraced, including the Conservative Party.”

She attributed the Conservative Party’s loss in the general election last July partly to climate policies. Conservative voters split between Reform and the Conservatives, leading to a Labour victory.

The Conservative government made commitments to cut carbon emissions to zero by 2050, which “has turned upside down our energy sources and made energy incredibly expensive.”

“It’s starting to really impact not just individual families, but businesses, and British companies are now relocating to where there is cheaper energy,” Elliott added. “It’s not just at the stage of not investing in the UK, they’re now actually moving their facilities and their factories to the U.S., and to avoid tariffs.”

Elliott celebrated the progress toward a trade deal between Britain and the United States in the wake of Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs.

She noted that Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the partial deal on May 8, the anniversary of the Allies’ victory over Nazi Germany in Europe, and that Britain was the first country to get a partial deal after the tariffs.

“The main target of these ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs and the main relationship that needs to be rebalanced is that with China, and the UK and the U.S. stood shoulder to shoulder,” Elliott said.

“China is not emulating net zero,” she noted. “They don’t care about the environment.”

“Why should our economies suffer while others are just running wild?” she asked.

While Britain’s Reform Party seems to be taking cues from Trump, Elliott said Britain is leading the U.S. on one issue—opposing gender ideology.

“On the whole transgender debate, the UK has actually been ahead of the curve on this, pushing back against ‘gender-affirming care,’ and it’s come from the Left,” she noted. “Left-wing feminists and lesbians” sounded the alarm about men in women’s spaces, and the UK has curtailed transgender medical experiments on children following British physician Dr. Hilary Cass’s exhaustive report last year.

More than anything else, Elliott highlighted the need for Britain and the U.S. to work together to foster economic growth and to counter China.

“The UK and Europe sometimes need to be guided,” she noted. “They need to be reminded that they want to rely more on the U.S. than on China.”

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