Lucy Hough

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3,713 appearances 79 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard yesterday

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Today in Focus · Rise of the far right in Germany: how worried should we be? – The Latest · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

So as you say, moving away from the centre ground and this kind of, you know, the strength of the CDU for so many decades in Germany now. voice-verified

I mean, Frederick Mertz has described these results as a disaster, but he has also vowed to press on. voice-verified

Do you think that's viable, given how bad things are for him? voice-verified

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Right. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

You wouldn't want to be in Friedrich Merz's shoes right voice-verified

exactly. voice-verified

I mean, you know, here we've had a similar year, I guess, in the sense that there were a set of catastrophic results in the local elections in May that, you know, galvanized the departure of Keir Starmer. voice-verified

There were similar kind of moves to the right wing Reform UK, but a lot of people, you know, Labour hemorrhaging voters to the left to the Green Party who had an absolutely amazing set of results. voice-verified

And that was a lot to do with Starmer's personal unpopularity. voice-verified

I read some reporting in the press that this is being kind of called like the Starmer effect, that it's Merz's unpopularity rather than the unpopularity of the centre or of the CDU. voice-verified

Do you think there's validity in that? voice-verified

Yeah, well, communication style was certainly a big problem for Keir Starmer as well. voice-verified

So there might be some similarities there. voice-verified

Just lastly, Deborah, I mean, it's looking pretty dicey in Europe. voice-verified

We have Giorgia Maloney in power in Italy, you know, proving a very, very strong leader there. voice-verified

Her background being very, very much from the far right, although... voice-verified

She's moved slightly closer to the centre since taking office. voice-verified

We've got elections in France next year that we could see the national rally take power there. voice-verified

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