{"id":33441,"date":"2025-11-14T05:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=33441"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:59:32","slug":"the-surprising-truth-about-reform-voters-podcast-reform-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=33441","title":{"rendered":"The surprising truth about Reform voters \u2013 podcast | Reform UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">There are certain stereotypes about who Reform UK voters are: people who want \u201cthe old England\u201d back, who think the country is going to the dogs and are obsessed with immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">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 \u2013 and the answers may surprise you. The Guardian columnist <strong>Aditya Chakrabortty<\/strong> says the results suggest an unwieldy coalition of voters who could be won back by other parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He tells <strong>Helen Pidd<\/strong> that a lot of Reform voters want quite fundamental things from the party \u2013 in terms of workers\u2019 rights and the environment, for instance. And their views on immigration are less firm than expected. \u201cI think this report should also serve as a massive wake-up call to the so-called political mainstream,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span> Photograph: Stefan Rousseau\/PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain stereotypes about who Reform UK voters are: people who want \u201cthe old England\u201d back, who think the country is going to the dogs and are obsessed with immigration. 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[515,838,4970,1104,2980],"class_list":{"0":"post-33441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-podcast","9":"tag-reform","10":"tag-surprising","11":"tag-truth","12":"tag-voters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}