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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot, Aletha Adu and Eleni Courea

Keeping Farage from No 10 is ‘a battle for UK’s future, heart and soul’, Labour MPs told

In a light blue suit and red tie, Nigel Farage addresses the press at Westminster alongside newly elected Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, who is dressed in a dark blue suit
Nigel Farage addresses the press at Westminster alongside newly elected Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Labour MPs have ramped up pressure on the Treasury, calling for an economic reset after the Reform UK surge in the local elections and saying that the economy is stuck in a “doom loop”.

The warning comes from the influential Labour Growth Group (LGG), a large caucus of loyalist new MPs who have lobbied the government to go further on planning and energy reforms. Its chair said that, without drastic action, the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was on course to become prime minister.

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