I know @fromorbit posted links to predictably mocking rightwing reactions to Hypnoboobs's Big Policy Speech to the New Economics Foundation, but GPEW isn't fishing for voters in those waters. It's what the left-leaning media and maybe the BBC (mainly whether they cover it, the how is probably less important) that is a better guide to how he's going down with his target audience.
A transcript of his speech is here.
Graun had a write-up (I was hoping someone else would take one for the team and read that).
Richard Murphy was generally positive:
"There was a great deal to like about this speech. He focused on care, which, of course, pleases me.
He raised issues that have been discussed here often, such as electricity pricing, the Bank of England's failures, and the need to abandon fiscal rules.He also discussed re-nationalisation of key economic activities as a real political option, and that was welcome.
Thankfully, he also discussed the climate crisis we face and referred to many of the ideas that first saw expression in the Green New Deal reports, of which I was the principal author on every occasion.Unsurprisingly, I was keen on what he had to say on tax..."
But he couldn't avoid noting that the speech was heavy on anti-neoliberal rhetoric and light on substantive plans:
"An exposition of an alternative macroeconomic framework is going to be required, and it was not present in this speech.
Nor was there a clear explanation of how he would propose to use the power of the state to create money, to regulate, and to direct. The hint that these things might happen was in the speech, but the conceptual framework was not."
The Standard devoted more pixels to regurgitating chunks of the 'significant' speech than to Anna Turley's Lab rebuttal and made sure there was room to mention the hypnoboobs.
The Independent (still going, apparently) write-up was mainly regurgitation. But he got one and it was quite extensive.
Left Foot Forward also went for regurgitation.
My main source of news these days is Politico. Their website now covers big Reform events and speeches, so I was interested to see if they'd also give Hypnoboobs a write-up. They didn't. So at European level he's not yet accepted as a significant player in UK politics.