How will Reform and the Greens respond to electoral success?
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Reform and the Greens are expected to make stunning gains in this week's elections. But will either party be ready to develop coherent and credible policies - in line with their very different values - by the time of the general election? It is the phase in the electoral cycle that is the toughest challenge of the lot.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards. |
| 0:18.5 | Thank you for tuning in. |
| 0:19.6 | Hope you all had a great bank holiday weekend |
| 0:22.0 | and are revived, whatever you were doing, because we've got some epic, momentous weeks coming up |
| 0:30.7 | with the elections this Thursday and then the aftermath, which could be of significance for quite some time. If it's okay with all of you, |
| 0:42.8 | what I'm going to reflect on a bit today is the state of the Reform Party and the Green Party. |
| 0:51.1 | We know they are going to do well and perhaps spectacularly well in the elections |
| 0:57.4 | at the end of this week. And that will be one of the many themes that follow those elections once |
| 1:05.7 | the votes have been cast. But anyway, I think it's a good time to explore them. Then we will go to some just fantastic |
| 1:14.6 | emails, see how many I can get through in our time together. I know you're all very busy and getting |
| 1:20.2 | ready for the aftermath of the elections when we will need to delve deep in all kinds of different |
| 1:25.7 | ways, including, of course, live in the main |
| 1:28.2 | concert hall at King's Place on the Monday, that's next Monday, when who knows what will be |
| 1:35.0 | happening. But we need to delve deep to make sense of it all. There are only a few tickets left. |
| 1:39.5 | Quick, get them. We're going to have some fun as well as making sense of it all. So yeah, that's roughly what we're |
| 1:47.8 | going to do in our time together. Let's begin with reform. That is clearly going to have an injection |
| 1:56.6 | of adrenaline through electoral success that can feed on itself. |
| 2:03.8 | And yet at the same time, at this new high point for Farage's latest political party, |
| 2:10.8 | you can see problems. |
| 2:12.6 | Now, these problems might not register with most voters, |
| 2:17.3 | and that in itself is an interesting development, |
| 2:21.6 | which we need to explore. In other words, does it not matter anymore what parties say or what leaders |
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