Focus on boosting workers’ rights rather than immigration raids to quash Farage threat, Starmer told

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In Farage’s Clacton seat, 70 per cent support banning zero-hours contracts and 71 per cent support sick pay from day one. Meanwhile, in Ms Badenoch’s North West Essex seat, 69 per cent support banning zero-hours contracts and 71 per cent support day one sick pay. “After the failed Conservative era of a low-rights, low-pay, and low-growth economy, voters can see the importance of making work pay and ending the scourge of insecure work.” The survey revealed that 65 per cent of Reform voters and 63 per cent of Conservative voters from the 2024 general election support banning zero hours contracts. open image in gallery Starmer has to deal with a surge in support for Reform “Nigel Farage and Reform aren’t on the side of working people – they’re on the side of bad bosses, zero hours contracts and fire and rehire.” Hope Not Hate chief executive Nick Lowles said: “Reform UK is emerging as a major political force in Britain, and a serious threat to the Labour government's majority.