"Part of his solution is another shake-up of his Downing Street team. You can read more about that from Henry Zeffman here. The other is to set out what he and the government are doing and to make the case that it is better than what he and his ministers are increasingly framing as the likely alternative - Reform UK. Privately, figures in government acknowledge that Reform had a visible and noisy summer."
"The prominence of the issue of asylum, particularly the rows about the Bell Hotel in Epping in Essex, gave a salience to a theme Reform regard as their own. "And we didn't come this far just to get this far," a senior Reform figure tells me, as party leader Nigel Farage heads to Washington to rail against the government about the Lucy Connolly case, and then heads to Birmingham on Friday for his party conference."
Prime Minister Keir Starmer emphasizes delivery as a priority and acknowledges frustration at the pace of change since the election. The government plans a Downing Street team shake-up and a public case that its policies are preferable to the likely alternative, Reform UK. Reform concentrated activity over the summer, elevating asylum as a central issue through cases like the Bell Hotel in Epping. Nigel Farage is campaigning internationally and at a party conference to sustain momentum. Government figures recognize Reform's visibility and noise. Both the prime minister and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper seek to contrast their approach with Reform's and present competence.
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