🗳️🇪🇺With the US election looming, what about the far right on this side of the pond?
It was fun helping @andretartar and @TomFevrier with their piece for Bloomberg @business
Three takeaways⤵️
https://t.co/6MjDvZFk56
2. There are many shades of far right. They are united on immigration and social issues - but split over the economy, EU and Russia
@ches_data@JanRovny
— @JacobReid02 has shown the UK’s party system is now more fragmented, suggesting it’ll be hard for the Tories to win as they’re fighting on multiple fronts
— in 2019 more than 2/3 of seats were straight Tory-Labour fights
— in 2024 that was under half as Reform and Greens rose
New: Labour MPs want strategists to borrow the Democrat playbook on JD Vance by painting Robert Jenrick - frontrunner for the Tory leadership - as “weird”
+ why the Tories are daring to believe they have a path back to power w/@alexwickham@JacobReid02
https://t.co/mqzNlUCeTk
Gold investors returning from their summer holidays will be eager to see whether the precious metal can sustain its record-breaking rally, or if it will succumb to the curse of September https://t.co/rnS5wbFx8K
Gold investors returning from their summer holidays will be eager to see whether the precious metal can sustain its record-breaking rally, or if it will succumb to the curse of September https://t.co/rnS5wbFx8K
@JanGold_@JanGold_ Hi Jan, I'm a metals reporter at Bloomberg News and am really interested in your article about the PBoC. Would you mind getting in touch? Thanks, Jacob
Will Nigel #Farage's Reform #UK be able to capitalise on gains it made in the North of #England?
The revenge of the places that don't matter in this @Bloomberg article by @JacobReid02
https://t.co/YdRNwR8Ala
https://t.co/NwGs3X4UN9
Six candidates will battle to replace former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as leader of the UK's Conservatives, with the task of resurrecting the party from its worst ever electoral defeat https://t.co/Xq0Ij0Lki0
@ProfSobolewska: “If the economy + public services improve under Labour, it almost doesn’t matter who they are trying to win votes from because they will get more votes… The fundamental truth of electoral politics is that voters will reward a successful incumbent.”
🧵Nigel Farage says he's coming for Labour, but looking at the data and speaking to people in the North East suggest a different story: maybe he just peaked
https://t.co/THf49Ui5Fr @BloombergUK
(2) Some Reform voters bluntly said they don’t like foreigners - but most linked immigration to house prices and difficulties seeing their GP. So if the new govt can address house prices and NHS waitlists, maybe that will reduce the salience of immigration.