Given that Reform, the Tories and now Labour seem to be trying to outdo one another with tough migration rhetoric and policies, while all simultaneously attempting to curry favour with Donald Trump, it leaves very little choice for voters wanting to find a party that is not nasty.
When one of Nigel Farage’s long term and loyal allies suggests that Keir Starmer’s party is being “nasty” by publishing videos of migrant raids, alarm bells should be ringing in Labour HQ.
Even before this new wave of anti-migrant policies were properly unleashed in November Labour peer Ann Mallalieu was warning Starmer that he was turning them into the “nasty party”.
Robert Hayward, the leading Tory peer and pollster, told The Independent: “It’s not surprising because the Lib Dems pick up a lot of the anti-establishment vote which is also attracted to Reform.
Diane Abbott, writing over the weekend for The Independent, is one of the few to publicly say Labour is becoming Reform-lite, but others are privately pondering whether there may need to be a change of leader sometime.
