دراسات وأبحاث
Volume 18, Numéro 4, Pages 425-435
2026-10-15

Populist Discourse In Britain: The Cases Of The Ukip, Brexit Party, And Reform Uk Party In The Brexit And Post-brexit Period

Authors : Boulahdour Redouane . Douifi Mohamed .

Abstract

The present paper deals with the topic of the populist discourse in Britain during Brexit and Post-Brexit referendum of 2016. It sheds light on aspects of populist discourse through the cases of the UK Independence Party, Brexit Party, and Reform UK party. The guiding idea is to examine the phenomenon of populism by focusing more on language. Three representative speeches from Nigel Farage, the leader of the three parties at a certain point, are examined. The question leading the study is whether there are any thematic and stylistic continuities between the discourse of each party and how do these continuities unfold. Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is adopted to conduct the analysis of the context and texts. The main idea advanced is that behind the apparent differences in the name and organization of each party, there lies common discursive traits that lead to classifying them under the same right-wing populist umbrella

Keywords

Populist discourse ; Critical Discourse Analysis ; UK Independence Party ; Brexit Party ; UK Reform Party