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Reform vs Labour: who’ll win the battle for the north?

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 Morten Morland
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 19 April 2025
issue 19 April 2025

When MPs and peers were recalled to parliament for an emergency debate on renationalising British Steel, one man was the talk of the terrace: Nigel Farage. Out by the river, a Labour peer congratulated the Reform leader for ‘leading on everything’. After all, Farage had been in Scunthorpe days earlier calling for steel nationalisation.

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