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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. Obviously the majority of the seats are going to Labour. Those are the voters they need to win back. They're not going to do that by appealing to Reform voters.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Labour is winning so many seats because Reform is splitting the right vote. The Tories did so well in 2019 because Reform agreed not to field any candidates to stop Corbyn.