{"id":99615,"date":"2025-05-14T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99615\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T02:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:16:09","slug":"britains-lobbyists-suddenly-want-a-piece-of-team-farage-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99615\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s lobbyists suddenly want a piece of Team Farage \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRead our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/y3r710.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me\/L0\/https:%2F%2Fdmp.politico.eu%2F%3Femail=adickson@politico.co.uk%26destination=https:%2F%2Freformukchi.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F06%2FReform_UK_Contract__With_The_People-NFL.pdf\/1\/01020196af872c1d-4e431f6c-3f6d-4cb4-a900-cae884640a84-000000\/a3mc8HkUpXwf-4JHMqLDGZzw_Aw=425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contract<\/a> [with voters]\u00a0from last year, then they will probably understand where we are coming from,\u201d Tice suggested. \u201cLook at our energy policy announcement earlier this year. Look at Nigel\u2019s speech at the launch of our local election campaign setting out some of our key national priorities. It\u2019s all out there and it hasn\u2019t actually changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Labour language<\/p>\n<p>Understanding Reform is not just about directly influencing the Farage outfit, lobbyists say.<\/p>\n<p>The electoral threat of the party is also now being factored into how campaigners talk to the under-fire Starmer government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a Labour government, and ministers are obviously Labour Party, but those ministers listen to Reform,\u201d Deacon said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re watching the polls. They know that a lot of their key voters, those hero voters, are going over to Reform. So we always just make sure that there\u2019s a Reform perspective in the room when we\u2019re planning a campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other lobbyists are urging a little caution given Reform\u2019s still small parliamentary presence, with just five MPs in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Quigley, vice president at Crestview Strategy, said her outfit is \u201ccertainly seeing organizations asking about whether \u2014 and how \u2014 to engage with Reform,\u201d but said there is \u201cless immediate impetus to engage for many sectors\u201d given Reform\u2019s distance from the actual levers of power.<\/p>\n<p>Still, \u201cI\u2019m going to have to buy much wider trousers and replace my waistcoat collection with much bigger ones,\u201d Fowler, the ex-Reform comms chief, quipped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cRead our\u00a0Contract [with voters]\u00a0from last year, then they will probably understand where we are coming from,\u201d Tice suggested.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,46247,33,393,4884,11582,384,1144,46,11585,8721,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-99615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-chris-heaton-harris","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-lobbying","16":"tag-nigel-farage","17":"tag-northern-ireland","18":"tag-policy","19":"tag-public-affairs","20":"tag-richard-tice","21":"tag-scotland","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114503783802542725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}