Reform Without Farage's Fireworks
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Robert Jenrick sets out Reform’s economic case aiming to make the party credible. But without Farage on the stage, is it losing its radical edge?
Hugo unpacks the politics of the day with Janice Turner and Robert Crampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Hugo Rifkin, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day. |
| 0:03.4 | From whether or not reform is still a one-man band to the Greens planned takeover of the capital and also the joy of a job perk. And let me tell you, there's no greater perk in my job than being joined by the Times is Janice Turner. Hello, Janice. Hello. How are you? Not bad at all. Good to have you with us. And Robert Crampton. Hello, Robert. |
| 0:21.3 | Hi, Hugo. |
| 0:22.0 | What's the greatest perk you enjoy in your job? |
| 0:24.1 | Coming on the Austrian. Hello. How are you? Not bad at all. Good to have you with us. And Robert Crampton. |
| 0:21.2 | Hello, Robert. |
| 0:21.8 | Hi, Hugo. |
| 0:23.8 | What's the greatest perk you enjoy in your job? |
| 0:25.1 | Coming on your show. |
| 0:34.2 | You're just copying what I said and it feels insincere. No, it's absolutely true. I look forward to Wednesdays. Oh, good. Well, so do I. Isn't that? What a lovely way to start. |
| 0:35.6 | Janice, greatest job perk. |
| 0:38.7 | I used to work as a waitress and the joy of |
| 0:40.2 | having free slushes was when you're a teenager was kind of you know augustic really right yeah |
| 0:47.7 | we get free newspapers don't we yeah well resubscription to the times yeah that's not |
| 0:53.5 | all right don't tell them everything they don't need know that. Don't get nearly enough freebies in this job. Do send them in. You can text them to 87-2. Start your message of the word times. Let's crack on lots of politics, lots of stuff really to talk about this morning. Let's start with Reform. Robert Jenrick's new self-titled shadow chancellor. I like that sigh there, Robert. His reform's new self-titled shadow chancellor. I like that sigh |
| 1:11.5 | there, Robert. His reform's new self-titled shadow chancellor is speaking right now at a press |
| 1:16.5 | conference designed to boost the party's economic credibility and to criticize the Labour |
| 1:20.4 | government's record. We can hear a little bit of what he's been saying. What happened to the |
| 1:23.8 | promised investment boom, it was driven overseas with punitive measures against investors, |
| 1:30.3 | which in the case of non-doms could see the country actually lose money. |
| 1:35.3 | Any juice left in businesses has been squeezed out by tens of billions in tax rises, |
| 1:42.3 | all to pay for an exploding benefits bill. |
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