Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots.

I'm Lucy Dunn and today I'm joined by James Hill and Tim Shipman.

This morning Reform held its fourth press conference on crime as part of its six-week

Lawless Britain campaign.

Today's theme was about protecting women and girls, which Nigel Farage says is the next

big issue in British politics.

James, you were actually at the presser today. Talk us with the highlights. Well, I think in their bid to dispel the impression that they're a one-man band, instead we had four women today. Nigel Farage was not present. And instead, we had Lyndon Kim Kahn, who's the leader of Kent County Council. We had Andrea Jenkins, the mayor of Greater Lincolnshire. We had Sarah Pochin,

the MP for Runcorn, and we had Layla County in the Westminster Council. And basically, if you want to know what they were going to say, you just had to read last week's spectator cover by my colleague Tim Shipman, because it basically was sort of the greatest hits, which was, you know, women's safety is being but threat, crime is out of control, and politicians are to blame. Now, to kind of give some

sort of novelty to the accompanying Now, to kind of give some

sort of novelty to the accompanying hacks, there was a lot of anecdotes talking about, for instance,

Andrew Jenkins kicked things off by talking about the abuse she suffered. And there was some pretty

horrifying examples there and saying that the police weren't investigating that.

E. Kennedy Cunningham talked about her son being mugged and how that made her feel.

But it really was talking about the key kind of reform voter areas about crime, about migration,

and really about the kind of failure of what they called the Uni Party to deal with any of that.

So on a quiet Monday in terms of domestic UK politics, it's exactly the kind of thing.

And I think probably the most memorable line, if you want, or perhaps two-word phrase, was Andrew Jenkins' declaration at the end that having been a one-time Cameron Cutie herself, she has converted, like presumably many thousands of women, to now being a self-proclaimed Farage Philly. So the new Blair's Babes for the 2020s. And this is very much, although it's a joke, it's clearly something that reform want to get better at

because I think about a quarter of their votes

as in the local elections of women,

and they really think they can get this up to

get the figures overall to around 40% in the polls.

We missed a cover headline there, didn't we?

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