Dan Hodges
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1,371 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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get rid of some of the cranks, the loonies, the overt racists who had sort of gravitated towards the Reform brand.
The second thing was a very, very specific policy, which is Reform's internal polling showed that whilst Nigel Farage is very popular amongst men, he's much less popular amongst women.
And to put it simplistically, Reform have a woman problem.
And the third thing was that they were going to start to need to set out
a serious policy programme and prospectus for government.
And that was kind of what the backdrop was in the run up to their party conference.
I think it was in October that year.
I might be slightly wrong about the date.
And I remember turning up to that conference and generally being interested in seeing how this programme was going to, you know, this sort of new reform was going to play out.
And frankly, it was a bit, when I got there, it was frankly a bit of a circus.
So you had, and I don't want to rehash sort of the old arguments, but I'm just literally saying what I observed.
So you had the situation where Lucy Connolly, who had just been, you know, got out of jail for saying, you know, tweeting about burning down hostels and et cetera, was literally on stage and fated like she was Mother Teresa.
You had a guy up there who'd been bussed over from the States who was talking, some anti-vaxxer who was talking about how the King had got cancer from some sort of vaccination program.
You had,
I think it was Sarah Poochin who had to be, I think almost physically stopped from walking onto stage dressed in a Union Jack Berker.
And Andrea Jenkins came on the stage singing a song or whatever.
And the point was this whole sort of modernization, we're taking ourselves to the next level, we're gonna be a serious party.
It kind of didn't happen.
And when I dug down and asked people why wasn't it happening, what became clear for me was for reasons I still don't quite understand, Nigel Farage and the people around Nigel Farage were becoming spooked by what they saw as some sort of nascent sort of threat
from Rupert Lowe and whatever you call the new right or the faction that Lowe represents.
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