Labour Will Try to Head Off Threat From Farage, Reynolds Says
- New business secretary says immigration ‘has to come down’
- Reynolds says Reform will come under more scrutiny in Commons
Jonathan Reynolds
Photographer: Anthony Devlin/BloombergLabour will seek to head off the threat from Reform UK after the breakout performance by Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party at the general election on Thursday, Britain’s new Business Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said.
In an interview with Sky News on Sunday, Reynolds said that immigration “has to come down” after a warning from former Prime Minister Tony Blair on the risk posed by Reform, which sought to make Thursday’s vote the “immigration election.”