He is scared of them, but also such a terrible politician that he is unable to find a single policy that would show a better alternative to Reform. He somehow thinks being like Reform will win votes. It won’t. Reform voters will support Reform, Labour voters will be put off by Labour mimicking Reform. An article a few weeks ago in the Byline Times summed up the Conservative strategy as ‘saying Farage is right about everything but don’t vote for him’. The same strategy is a disaster for Labour too.
Meanwhile, he’s also copying Tony Blair’s Iraq strategy, just changing a q to an n, and hoping it will work out better for him than it did for Blair.