Photo by Benjamin Cremel/AFP via Getty Images Predicting political futures is hard. When Keir Starmer won the 2024 general election, I was pleased. I was also worried about my professional future. Months stretched ahead, then years, of colourless, unflashy competence and granular amelioration; few dramas, no resignations. What would we find to write about? Similarly, nobody quite managed to get the realities of post-Brexit Britain right ahead of time – although there were hundreds of scenarios in print. So, Peter Chappell is to be commended on his courage in trying to imagine, in some detail, what happens following an overall Reform UK victory in the June 2029 election, pitching Nigel Farage into Downing Street as Britain’s 60th prime minister. What If Reform Wins is an overtly hostile account – though not a hysterical one.…