Labour and Reform are pushing the same drugs-panic smear because polling has Greens ahead, so the “only Labour can stop Reform” line has failed. Right, so Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has decided that the way to hold Gorton and Denton is to tell people they don’t get a choice in the matter. The pitch is “only Labour can stop Reform”, it’s their only pitch, God forbid they stand for something rather than arrogantly demand your vote, but there we are. The threat is “a vote anywhere else lets Reform in”, never mind they’ve been copying Reformesque policy for months and the proof they’ve waved around for that claim has already been pulled apart in public. You see Full Fact has looked at Labour’s “only Labour can beat Reform” ad and said the bar chart in it is built on answers from just sixty-two respondents, and that it can’t reliably show how support ...