But now the anti-racism charity Hope Not Hate has asked 11,000 people who said they were going to vote for Reform why that is and the answers may surprise you. The Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty says the results suggest an unwieldy coalition of voters who could be won back by other parties. He tells Helen Pidd that a lot of Reform voters want quite fundamental things from the party in terms of workers' rights and the environment, for instance.
Do Democrats need their own Stephen Miller? That's what the Rolling Stone journalist Asawin Suebsaeng reports hearing from many people on the left. Imagining a progressive version of Donald Trump's far-right-hand man is hard enough, much less justifying why this might be a good thing. But the idea seems inevitable in a party that has already launched searches for a Democratic Joe Rogan, a Democratic Donald Trump, and a Democratic Project 2025.