Is Labour trying to mimic Reform?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Labour has been trying to show how tough it’s getting on immigration - releasing videos of its door to door raids whilst simultaneously putting up Reform turquoise ads on Facebook. The messaging goes to the heart of the Labour conundrum. Should it fight Reform or copy it? Does it need more muscular pushback? Or an acceptance that’s where voters concerns now lie? We discuss with MP Jake Richards.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.3 | Please. This is a video that's been released by the Home Office to show how tough the government is on cracking down on illegal immigrants |
| 0:32.9 | and how if they're in the country without the right papers, well, they can be deported. |
| 0:38.9 | It's all an attempt to show how muscular this government is in tackling the vexed issue of migration. |
| 0:46.5 | And it's opened up something of a rift in terms of how the Labour Party thinks it should respond to reform. |
| 0:54.1 | Does it need to ape them or stand up to them? |
| 0:58.0 | Does it need to be reform or tell reform it's wrong? |
| 1:02.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:06.9 | The newsagents. |
| 1:08.5 | It's John. |
| 1:09.4 | It's Emily. |
| 1:10.2 | And before we get on to the meat of the episode, we're in Birmingham next Monday at the |
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| 1:20.3 | So if you're coming, please send us your questions and contact us at newsagents at global.com and you'll have the chance to put us |
| 1:30.0 | on the spot in person in the Symphony Hall next Monday night. Limited number of tickets |
| 1:35.8 | are still available for the show. Those are the questions for Birmingham. The questions |
| 1:39.9 | for today, perhaps the questions for the next five years years are going to be Labor's choice in how it |
| 1:47.3 | responds to the Reform Party. And you may have seen an opinion poll last week, which showed, |
| 1:53.9 | the first opinion poll which showed reform edging ahead of Labor, just minusculely by about one point |
| 1:59.4 | putting reform ahead of labour. |
| 2:02.0 | And it's opened up a big conversation and maybe even a big rift in the Labour Party |
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