Lucy Fisher

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792 appearances 16 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 20 Jul

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Today with David McCullagh · Going to the polls - Makerfield by election · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

It's not a done deal.

I myself spent two days in the seat last week and found many reform voters on the ground.

I also met many Restore voters.

And of course, not to say, you know, my, you know, 48 hours there was scientific.

But there is this expectation potentially that Restore could split the right wing bloc.

and therefore allow Burnham to come through the middle.

As you say, you know, Reform won all the council seats there just last month.

So it will be a big gamble paying off for Burnham if he wins to show that, you know, his personal brand and popularity can massively boost the Labour Party.

And we expect, you know, if he can win locally, he will then use that argument to say, I can beat Reform in a constituency and make me leader and I'll do the same with the country.

Well, look, I think that is a big question.

What happens to reform after today if they lose?

Because it will also be the third by-election in a row that they have lost, which is out of whack with the national polling, where they are at least 10 points clear of the next party in the average of the polls.

So whether Nigel Farage looks to sort of tack rightward towards Rupert Lowe's Restore,

remains to be seen.

We know that in the past week, Farage has called for an overhaul of reform social media policy.

They clearly think that Rupert Lowe's party is better at landing its message online and they need to up their game given that's where so many people are getting their information from.

Well, it does.

And, you know, in many ways, it's extraordinary that things have unravelled for Starmer quite so quickly.

It's less than two years since he won that famous majority in the House of Commons.

And now his own parliamentary party, you know, many of them have gone over the parapet, about a quarter of them calling for him to go or at least to set out a timetable for his transition.

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