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Today in Focus

The surprising truth about Reform voters

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The biggest survey of Reform voters to date reveals unexpected views. Aditya Chakrabortty reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:10.1

Today, the surprising truth about reform voters.

0:26.9

Guardian columnist at Ditcha Chacraborti has a challenge for you.

0:31.5

Shut your eyes for a second and see if you can imagine a reform voter.

0:33.1

Are you doing it?

0:55.1

You probably can because you've seen so many of them on telly or read about them in the paper. Nigel Farage's, I think he's fantastic. He thinks he's fantastic for the country. And I think... Heard their voxpops. Yeah, at least he says what, you know, how it is. Who are you imagining? They're going to drag us back to the EU kicking and screaming. You're going to get more woke agenda.

0:56.9

You're going to get more green agenda.

0:58.1

An older chap?

1:00.5

Pink and face, perhaps.

1:03.4

Someone who wants the old England back.

1:04.7

They think we're going to vote for them.

1:06.0

I'm going to vote reform.

1:07.0

But if you... They think we're all going to hell in a handcart and they know who to blame.

1:10.0

The illegal immigrants. It is a national emergency, as Nigel says.

1:14.0

We have no idea where a lot of these people are deliberately.

1:18.1

But forget your preconceptions.

1:20.4

Hope not hate, the anti-racism organisation, knows who would actually vote reform

1:25.6

if there are a general election tomorrow.

1:28.8

They've asked 11,000 people, the biggest survey of reform voters to date.

1:34.3

And what they found is much more complicated and a lot more interesting than you might think.

1:42.6

Actually, what this report shows you, what all of this analysis shows you, is that reform

1:47.2

voters not who you think they are. They're much more varied and they're not even necessarily

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