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Reform 10 Points Ahead Of Labour In Poll

Novara Live

Novara Media

Daily News, News, News Commentary, Politics

4.8577 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer is touting his trade deal with Donald Trump as a political victory, but is it really just damage limitation?

Plus: James Butler on the new pope; and David Wallace-Wells on Bill Gates’ swipe at Elon Musk.

With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode of Navarra Life is made possible by Navarra Media supporters.

0:11.3

To become one, go to Navaramedia.com forward slash support.

0:17.9

Welcome to Navarra Live. I'm Michael Walker. It's a beautiful Friday evening and I'm joined by

0:22.7

Aaron Bustani. Aaron, how are you doing? Very good, Michael. It is gorgeous for everyone joining us.

0:27.8

We're going to make it worth your while. Don't worry. You looked so alert when the camera came to you.

0:31.8

I'm looking forward to the energy. I'm sure you're going to bring to tonight's show.

0:36.2

Coming up tonight, I'll speak to James Butler about the new Pope.

0:41.1

I needed someone more learned than myself to make sense of it all.

0:44.7

Bill Gates has called out Elon Musk in pretty severe fashion, actually.

0:49.2

He's blamed him for the deaths of millions of children.

0:52.7

I speak to David Wallace Wells, who's the New York Times

0:55.2

journalist who carried out their relevant interview with Bill Gates. We're going to close the show

1:01.4

with a lighter story. It's a bizarre court case from the United States. I'm not going to give

1:06.2

anything more away, but you'll want to see it. Let's go to our first story. Since last week's local

1:14.2

elections, reform appeared to have the wind in their sales. And we now have another piece of

1:18.9

evidence that Nigel Farage could become the next prime minister. A new poll from BMG research

1:25.0

has reform on 32% in the polls.

1:28.1

Labour are in second, but they're only on 22%.

1:31.6

So 10-point gap, and the Tories are on 19.

1:36.4

This follows earlier polls this week from UGov and More In Common, which also gave reform

1:40.9

a lead, albeit not quite as large as this one.

1:44.8

Starrma, of course, has this week been trying to build up momentum for his premiership

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