Dan Hodges
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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And that instead of sort of embracing, moving forward and trying to embrace the country as a whole, they were instead adopting a policy of trying to neutralize that faction.
And that to an extent is kind of what we saw replicated as well in Maker Field.
So we had this initial poll that came out right at the start of the campaign, which had obviously Restore on 7%.
In that poll, it seemed to be like it could be the difference between reform winning and reform losing.
But for the next three weeks of the campaign, Reform stopped trying to talk to the people of Maker Field as a whole, and instead spent all their time just talking to that 7% of Restore voters, trying to plead with them, bully them, beg them into voting for Restore.
of voting, switching from result to reform, we saw increasingly sort of aggressive
messages in relation to obviously the backdrop of some of the issues.
So the appalling death of Henry Novak, the appalling scenes in Belfast, the riots in Belfast.
What was broadly an attempt to outflank Restore on the right and convince Restore voters, Nigel Farage and Reform were as hardcore on these issues as Restore were.
And the broader attempt to engage with the electorate, the wider electorate, an electorate, by the way, that as we now know, was broadly lining up behind Andy Burnham, went out of the window.
And I think that is kind of part of the problem that we're seeing replicated nationally for Reform and Farage at the moment.
I mean, I think I thought what was interesting is I thought we kind of just saw there with Julia's criticism of Andy Burnham.
a sort of a replication of the problem reform have just had in Maker Field, which is Andy Burnham's opponents at the moment don't really know what the best line of attack is on Andy Burnham.
So we had there simultaneously, he's basically exactly the same as Keir Starmer.
He doesn't know what he believes in, but he's actually somehow a creature of the hard left.
And the last time I heard, I saw, and I'm by no means going to broaden this comparison, but the last time I saw sort of people struggling to sort of get a handle on how to criticise a politician was when the Tories were trying to deal with Blair and couldn't work out whether or not to say he's this slick, slimy politician
sort of deceitful operator who doesn't really believe in anything, or he's actually secretly as hard left and dangerous as the hard left.
And if you remember the whole demon eyes thing,
that was going on and there's a bit of that there's a bit of a sort of a demon andy sort of sort of confusion i i i think just come on no but but i mean no but but do you know what i mean people are running people are telling me but people people are simultaneously saying to me andy burnham doesn't believe anything he's always flip-flopping he doesn't believe in anything
And then simultaneously saying he's actually almost as hard left as Jeremy Corbyn.
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