A handful of billionaires have pumped £170m into Britain's populist right. Labour can't beat Reform by copying them, only by telling voters the honest truth.
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Politics should be the art of making life better. In Britain right now, it too often feels like the opposite.
The right has no answers to the cost of living, the energy crisis or the hollowing out of public services. What it has is a strategy: keep people angry and hope no one notices who's picking their pocket.
The country deserves better. We're here to demand it.
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