Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images When Lucy Powell was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in October 2025 she said: “We won’t win by trying to out-Reform Reform, but by building a broad progressive consensus.” She declared this in the wake of the Caerphilly by-election where Labour came third behind Plaid Cymru and Reform UK despite having held the seat for the entirety of its history.  New research suggests Powell’s assessment was right. Polling by the UCL Policy Lab, shown exclusively to the New Statesman , has found only 1 per cent of Reform voters say there is a fair chance they can support Labour.…