Can left wing populism beat Reform?
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
More in Common's latest research of 20 thousand people suggests nearly 90 percent of us have little or no trust in politicians. 70 percent of voters think this country is on the wrong track, and the prevailing word used to describe Britain is 'broken'. What does that mean for main stream political parties? How do they convince people politics can improve their lives? And will the next electoral race be between populists on the left and populists on the right?
We dig into the 7 political tribes as described by More in Common's Luke Tryl and ask the man who wants to lead the Green Party - Zack Polanski why he believes Ecopopulism is the only answer to Reform UK.
You can take More In Common's quiz to find out which political tribe you are here: https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/seven-segments/
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Britain is shattered. We're giving up on traditional politicians. We're giving up on belief in our institutions. |
| 0:19.5 | We're giving up believing even |
| 0:21.3 | that the cost of living will ever improve. Those are the findings of a new piece of work |
| 0:26.3 | by the polling company more in common. And it raises serious questions for what mainstream |
| 0:31.6 | parties must do if they want to bring the public with them. Because the party that is clearly |
| 0:37.1 | on the rise in the UK at the moment is reform. |
| 0:40.8 | So is conventional politics dead, Labour Conservative? |
| 0:44.9 | And if you want to beat populism of the right, |
| 0:48.4 | do you now need to have a populism of the left? |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:58.1 | Music populism of the left. Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. It's John. It's Emily. And it is a truism to say politics has become more |
| 1:05.2 | divided and people have become angrier and there's polarisation. And we've seen it in America and we're seeing it in |
| 1:13.3 | Britain and it has sort of been quantified in a major piece of polling research done by more in |
| 1:23.6 | common which is a sort of anatomy of Britain today and our attitudes and the tribes that we |
| 1:33.5 | fall into. Some of the headlines of this report will really make you pause to take breath. |
| 1:39.8 | 87% of people ask say they have little or no trust in politicians, i.e. not just one type of politician, but politicians per se. There's a question about who you would ask to watch your bag, which party leader you'd ask to watch your bag. And none of the current leaders even come out of that well. 36% say that the COVID pandemic |
| 2:04.5 | was exaggerated to control people. So that is more than one in three, more than a third of this |
| 2:12.3 | country believes what we were told about the pandemic was not as real as the government was making out. |
| 2:21.1 | And it asks questions, and we're going to embed the link so that you can have a go at finding out which tribe you are, where you sit. |
| 2:28.2 | It asks questions, not on the left to right axis, but more in terms of where you sit on social issues, what you prioritise, what you think is important, |
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