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Political scientist: Labour fears Reform UK surge
AlArabiya English
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5/31/2025
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Matt, what do you make of that? Even though it might have the rhetoric, it might have
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the ideology, maybe it even has some of the public support, does it just not have the
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expertise to be an effective opposition and an effective government?
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Well, I think as we saw this week with Keir Starmer sprinting up to northern England to
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give a speech which exclusively attacked Nigel Farage in reform and mentioned Nigel Farage
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no less than 16 times, it's not just the Conservatives that are panicking. The Labour
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government is clearly aware of what is going to happen in industrial heartlands across
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northern England and Wales. As I've been writing for some time, on current polling numbers,
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Labour will lose more seats to Nigel Farage in Labour areas than they lost to Boris Johnson
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in 2019. Now, the reason for that, to come back to your question, and where I would perhaps go
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further than John, is saying this isn't just about voters rejecting the Tories. This is about voters
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rejecting the political consensus that has governed this country for the last 30 years,
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that it's been pushed on by both the left and the right, which began with Tony Blair,
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ran through Gordon Brown, David Cameron's coalition government, through to Boris Johnson,
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and now Keir Starmer. It is a consensus that is united around large-scale mass migration,
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a London-centric economy that is not willing to leave international conventions to control our borders,
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and which is basically obsessed with endless amounts of social and economic liberalism,
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which only about 10 to 15 percent of the country supports.
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