Reform flirts with loyal Labour voters – is it a winning strategy?
This Is Why
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
After Nigel Farage's almost unbelievable success in local elections last week, is this the strategy to take him all the way to Downing Street?
Niall Paterson is joined by our political correspondent Liz Bates, and reporter Alexandra Rogers, to unpick what Reform's flirtations mean for Labour.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:04.0 | reform is flirting with traditional labour support, |
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