“Burnham won’t solve your problems, because Labour cannot solve your problems,” Farage has stated. “His plan for government is to act as continuity Starmer, and hope the rest of us are too stupid to notice.”
Early efforts are underway to challenge his authority. Reform has already demanded a general election, a call that Badenoch’s poorly polling Tories are resisting. Reform insiders hope Burnham will encounter the same issues that troubled Starmer. “He’ll appear new but will struggle to deliver and soon be linked to the Labour brand,” said a Reform official.
Others in Reform aim to portray Burnham as chaotic and extreme. Deputy Leader Richard Tice has labeled Burnham’s agenda as “hard socialism” and “hard-left.”
Reform’s Tory opponents, recovering from their own leadership crisis in 2024, suggest the leadership change should worry Farage’s group, positioned as anti-establishment.
“I think it doesn’t change much for us,” a Conservative shadow cabinet member claimed. “But Reform, blooming heck.”
“Reform’s stance was ‘vote Reform, get rid of Starmer’ — now it can’t be ‘vote Reform, get rid of Burnham’ because he just defeated them in a stronghold,” the same person noted.
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