Opinion | Farage's latest attack on WFH ignores six years of reality

Nigel Farage has, once again, taken aim at remote working. “People aren’t more productive working from home - it’s a load of nonsense,” he cried this week.

This week’s comments from the Reform UK leader followed a familiar script: office attendance equals seriousness, working from home equals skiving, and anything else is a sign that Britain has gone soft.

Putting aside the blatant hypocrisy (Reform has previously advertised jobs that allow WFH arrangements), it is not a new argument. But as we edge towards the sixth anniversary of the first UK lockdown, it is one that feels increasingly disconnected from reality.