Dan Hodges
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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And I think what we've seen cemented in Maker Field is something that we've seen, and I think we've seen developed, developing for a considerable period now, which is the shine is definitely coming off Nigel Farage and Reform.
And coupled with that, we are now starting to see
quite organized quite sophisticated quite active anti-reform coalition that is developing in constituencies across the country and i think that has also has very significant implications for our politics moving forward
Well, I'll be honest, I wasn't massively surprised because I thought... I mean, I wasn't one of the people who thought, you know, this was a nip and tuck, you know, going to be a tight by-election.
From, you know, the first few days I was there, it seemed to me there was a strong move behind Andy Burnham.
I mean, I think what surprised me was...
To all intents and purposes, at the beginning of the contest, if you walked around the constituency, and obviously I'd been walking around similar constituencies just a few weeks before in the local elections, it kind of had the feel,
of what I would call a traditional reform constituency.
All the issues that you've obviously articulated on this programme, and we've all talked about before, about post-industrial northern working class British decline, it's all there in Maker Field.
You walk around sections of the constituency and you see significant
significant areas of the constituency which have, you know, union flags hanging from flag poles, etc.
And when I first arrived there, it seemed to me this was, as I say, you know, fertile ground for reform.
And indeed, you know, to all intents and purposes, reform were maybe favourites for the seat.
But as I said, it became...
clear sort of quite early that the Burnham factor, the inversion of the sort of vote for me reforms vote for us ditch Starmer message was very potent.
But also, and it was something I did start to pick up in the local elections as well.
There are now serious issues for the reform project and the Nigel Farage project.
Well, you know, there's obviously a lot of things to pick up there.
I mean, I think, as I say, Julia is right that it wasn't necessarily
an endorsement of Keir Starmer's Labour Party.
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