Do the young really love Nigel Farage?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Nigel Farage claims that Reform is the party of the future. And the young. He hasn’t been correct on that one so far - it’s very much been the party of the old. But could that be changing? And why has the UK lagged behind the rest of Europe on this trend up until now? Are young voters really switching away from progressive parties, or is Reform just out to find those who never previously voted?
Later, why is the shadow chancellor sounding like a one man melodrama and invoking the drums "beating ever closer"? We discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.5 | This is a global player original podcast. As you can quite clearly see from those three young men, |
| 0:15.5 | we are a party of the future of British politics and things are about to change. |
| 0:22.6 | Nigel Farage claiming that reform is now the party of the future, the party of youth. |
| 0:28.8 | Today we want to dig into that claim a bit and to see where that sense is coming from. |
| 0:35.0 | And it comes after a poll from YouGov, |
| 0:37.5 | which not only shows reform overall, |
| 0:41.0 | taking second place from the Conservatives, |
| 0:44.1 | but beating them roundly with the youth vote. |
| 0:47.5 | Part of a trend we're seeing across Europe |
| 0:49.9 | for young people to increasingly find |
| 0:52.6 | the hard right, the populist right, more and more appealing. |
| 0:57.1 | If it's happening, what is driving it? |
| 0:59.8 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:04.3 | The newsagents. |
| 1:05.8 | It's Emily. |
| 1:06.4 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:07.2 | And yeah, let's take you through that poll, that poll from you, Gav. |
| 1:10.1 | Obviously, it's a long way |
| 1:10.9 | to the next election, but it does basically support the trend that we have seen since the election |
| 1:16.7 | in July. So it puts Labor on 26, so that will be down eight, nine points or so from what they got |
| 1:22.2 | at the election, and then reform on second place, biting at Labour's heels on 25, |
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