What do Reform voters think of Trump?
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🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Could Farage’s lack of criticism of Trump damage Reform’s prospects in future UK elections?
The team answer listener questions on Trump and Reform, the prospects of the Tories in the local elections, and the point of state visits.
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| 0:54.8 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes and it's Friday, so this is where I put your questions to the New Statesman team. |
| 1:05.0 | Remember, if you'd like to get in touch, you can go to Newstatesman.com forward slash you ask us or leave a comment on Spotify or YouTube. |
| 1:13.2 | Today I'm joined by our political editor, Andrew Marr, and our associate political editor, Rachel Cunliff. |
| 1:19.3 | Okay, let's kick off with a question from, I think, Clean Dog 1. |
| 1:24.5 | What do reform voters think of Trump? |
| 1:34.3 | Could Farage's lack of criticism of Trump damage reforms prospects in future UK elections? |
| 1:40.2 | Worth reminding listeners of what David Gork has written this week about the strange rise of the pro-Russia right. |
| 1:46.6 | He says, quote, this admiration for Putin is not limited to the US. Populist parties of the right across Europe, such as the AFD and the Austrian Freedom Party, share the pro-Russian |
| 1:52.0 | sympathies of the Republicans. Nationalism is becoming an international business. Rachel, allied to that, |
| 1:59.4 | so has this extended to reform UK? Well, this is a really |
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