Dan Hodges

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TRIGGERnometry · "Reform is Screwed"- Dan Hodges · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

They're screwed.

The polls are overestimating reform's support.

There is absolutely no way, in my view, it can get from where it is now to actually being potentially a party of government.

There is now a clear perception within reform that Nigel Farage is coming to the end of his leadership.

I do, yes.

That the sanctions on Israeli settlement, his defence of welfare, is part of a broader strategy of choring up his left flank, and that with the split on the right, that will be enough to win him a majority.

I am pretty certain that what Andy Burnham is currently doing is preparing for a snap general election at some point next year.

Yeah, well I used to uh I used to work for the Labour Party.

I mean I used to to be honest, I used to work for my mother in the she was a Labour MP, so worked in the worked for her for five years in the right the ninety seven election.

Um then I went off, did the sort of the sort of the PR consultancy circuit for a bit, and then somehow, I'm not entirely sure how, stumbled into

journalism and and political commentary, which is how I end up ended up here.

I think it's being upbeat.

I mean I think I I mean I think last time we spoke, he w I think was before he became Prime Minister, wasn't he?

I think Kirstar announced it.

We had the discussion.

And obviously I I at the time there were already predictions of imminent sort of doom and gloom and disaster for Andy Burnham.

And I just sort of pose a little bit of a corrective saying I wasn't entirely sure that in the short term his premiership was going to collapse quite as precipitously as maybe Julia Julia thought of the time.

And that's basically that's basically

sort of my my analysis.

I I I mean I was saying before, I I I that one of the things in relation to Andy Burnham is that the first Prime Minister

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