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No 10 braced for Reform-Tory pact as populist Right surges

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Sir Keir Starmer had come to a stark conclusion about his hopes of re-election.

To win a second term, he would have to defeat a centrist Conservative Party .

The Prime Minister thought his path could be blocked by Reform , possibly with the two forces linking arms.

How to keep Labour government electable amid headwinds of populism has become something of a fixation for No 10.

Labour hope comes in the form of Morgan McSweeney , Sir Keir ’s chief of staff.

He cut his teeth in the trenches of Lambeth Council in the late 2000s countering a surge in support for the British National Party .

Downing Street will use the cuts to frame Labour squarely as the “party of work”.

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