The prime minister is wrong to try and outflank the maverick politician as it only serves to embolden him, the former spin-doctor tells Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips.
Nigel Farage is 'terrorising' the Conservative Party and Rishi Sunak is afraid to take him on, Labour grandee Lord Mandelson has told Sky News. The former cabinet minister and spin-doctor, who masterminded Tony Blair's 1997 landslide win, argued the job of the Tory leader should be to stand up to Mr Farage and Reform UK rather than seeking to appease them.
The peer said: 'He's doing so by appeasing them, by sort of throwing red meat, to Farage, which is not outflanking him. It's just making him bolder. It's just making him, frankly, stronger than Sunak. And therefore the tactics, the strategy has been got wrong, in my view, by Sunak, right from the beginning. 'But I think the reason he doesn't take on Farage is because he sees him as a stronger politician and frankly, he's afraid to take him on.
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