Is Nigel Farage’s Reform hype outpacing reality?

• Farage’s Reform UK overtakes Labour in new opinion poll

  Survey will alarm ruling party and the Tories ahead of local elections in May
  
  Financial Times - 2d

• European stock markets outpace global rivals in January

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  Streeting accuses Farage of 'miserabilist' vision for UK

  The health secretary says Reform UK has a "poverty of ambition" for the UK that Labour "utterly rejects".
  
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  The New York Times - Jan. 18

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  Reeves 'to wage war on waste' and 'Nine-jobs Nigel'

  "Growing disquiet" in the Labour Party and Nigel Farage's "side-hustles" lead Sunday's newspapers.
  
  BBC News - Jan. 12
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  Reform UK councillors resign in protest over Farage

  A group of councillors in Derbyshire say the party "has lost its sense of direction" under Farage's leadership.
  
  BBC News - Jan. 11
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  Tory and Reform MPs accused of ‘weaponising trauma’ of grooming victims, as Farage calls for inquiry into Pakistani men – UK politics live

  Prime minister told Commons any new inquiry into child abuse would delay progress however spokesperson says he has not ruled one out. Reform UK has also tabled a reasoned amendment to the ...
  
  The Guardian - Jan. 8

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