Dan Hodges
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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Now I think, you know, in a moment we can get onto the broader structural issues that this by-election threw up.
Reform's broader strategy, how reform tried to deal with the restore, reform's candidate selection again.
But the reality is, you know, and I've seen this, you know, again, with respect to Julia, I've seen lots of people from reform trying to dismiss this.
Yeah, reform can dismiss it if they want.
And reform can just say, oh, well, you know, it doesn't matter.
It was Andy, but it was the Andy Burnham effect, yada, yada, yada.
But as I said, there is a fundamental thing that we're starting to see happening now.
I mean, you said about how the left were united against reform in this by-election.
But there were also significant elements on the right that were also arranged against
reform obviously there's the restore issue what struck me though was the number of concert now obviously there's not a huge conservative vote here but what was very clear was that that there were large numbers of conservative voters who were basically you know again they said it to me on the doorstep look never voted labor in my life don't mind any Andy Burnham dislike Keir Starmer
but I'm not going to have reform representing me in this seat.
And that's conservative voters.
That's not sort of... Why is it?
Well, I think this is, I mean, this is a much broader conversation that I hope we can get on to, but I think... Well, let's get on to it now.
Well, I mean, let's go back.
I mean, firstly, just to pick up your point, there is no ambiguity here.
Polls go up, polls go down.
If you look at the polling averages in September of last year, reform broke 30% in the polls.
And we all remember that because that was the moment when people were talking about, you know, a reform majority government was possible.
from that moment on reform have been in been into a relatively steady decline to the point they're now back down to about 25 in the polls and i remember last september having a discussion with a number of senior reform sort of figures and they explained to me that they had a strategy for if you like taking reform onto the next level and it was essentially threefold firstly it was to to modernize professionalize the party
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