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If the company declines, employees can have the National Labor Relations Board schedule an election on the question of unionizing with UFCW.

That would be a concession that could, in the end, boost their own electoral prospects and defuse an obvious line of Democratic attack in next year's midterm elections.

After the election, it quickly became clear that he had no intention of doing so.

In his BBC interview, Yusuf said that "reasonable people" would be able to question whether the decision was appropriate, given Reform UK's rise in national opinion polls since last year's general election.

They argued that the then-president had strayed from the environmental promises he made when he ran for election, such as by approving a massive oil drilling project on the North Slope of Alaska.