Standing inside the heart of global power, Nigel Farage delivered a blunt warning to the world’s business and political elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos: Britain is done taking orders.
The Reform UK leader told assembled executives and officials that the era of globalist rulemaking is over. No more lectures on climate policy. No more pressure on open borders. No more obedience to uniform global targets. Britain, he said, will engage—but strictly on its own national-interest terms.
Farage argued that the “old Davos” consensus is collapsing and claimed the forum itself is quietly shifting away from decades of globalist ideology. In a pointed jab, he suggested figures like Keir Starmer are being left behind by a changing political reality.
Speaking earlier at a Bloomberg event, Farage said the idea that every country must follow the same rules is finished—calling the European Union the former epicenter of that thinking. A new politics, he argued, is taking hold across Europe, driven by sovereignty, national interest, and economic realism.
Despite years of attacking Davos from the outside, Farage now says the tone inside the forum is changing, with real debate emerging around artificial intelligence, crypto, and energy—rather than what he described as years of narrow focus on climate and identity politics.
With a UK general election looming and polls hinting at a political shock, Farage used Davos to court business leaders, saying many feel the current government is “utterly disconnected.” He floated plans to bring top executives directly into government and create a powerful new business ministry to drive growth.
His message was unmistakable: the world shaped by global elites is cracking—and Britain, he says, won’t be governed by it ever again.
