Badenoch made the comments in a lengthy interview with Ed Balls on the Political Currency podcast. We are not just different from Labour, or even different from the old Conservative Party. She said: “Reform are a woke party”. The term ‘woke’ originates in the USA and was popularised in the 2000s to describe someone who is awake or alert to injustice – particularly in relation to racial discrimination. That hardly seems to apply to Reform, and it may well be the first time in human history that Farage has been called ‘woke’.