LONDON—Nigel Farage has never held a position in the British government. As leader of the anti-immigration party Reform UK, he oversees just eight lawmakers in Parliament. Among voters, he has one of the lowest favorability ratings of any politician.  Yet when his upstart party, in May local elections, handed the ruling Labour Party its worst drubbing in the postwar period, it turned Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s own party against him. A decade after Farage helped orchestrate Brexit, the 62-year-old former commodities trader was positioned to again disrupt the country’s political order.  “If Starmer goes,” he told an aide as the election results rolled…

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