A national poll has put Reform UK surging to its highest figure so far – with more than one in four choosing Farage’s party.
The research, conducted by pollster YouGov, reveals that 26 per cent of the public would vote for the populist party, if an election were to be held tomorrow – meaning that Reform has topped the poll for the second week in a row.
Labour is one point behind on 25 per cent, meanwhile the Tories are trailing at third place with 21 per cent.
The Lib Dems have kept their 14 points with the Greens on nine cent and the SNP taking three per cent.
Reform has topped the latest national poll for the second week in a row
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Reform chairman Zia Yusuf said: “Reform now leads in the latest YouGov voting intention poll – with our highest ever level of support, and five points clear of the Tories. Real change is coming to Britain.”
With just five MPs in the Commons, the party has proved itself capable of effectively climbing the polls ahead of the local elections in May.
Their poll success has come amid refutations from both Farage and Kemi Badenoch on the possibility of a pact between the two political parties.
Badenoch said the very suggestion of an agreement was “for the birds” as she dismissed the idea altogether on her 100th day as Leader of the Opposition.
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“The Conservative Party is a broad church. When we had disagreements, what people saw was disunity. We’ve now got a place where we are unified,” she told The Telegraph.
“The idea that you just do something with a whole different bunch of people and it’s going to be fine is for the birds. Politics just doesn’t work like that.
“There are many people who vote Conservative, who, if they think that we’re having mergers or pacts or whatever with Reform, will go elsewhere.”
On the same day, Farage declared that he did not consider the Tories to be “honourable”.
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Addressing masses of farmers protesting along Whitehall, he said: “To do a pact with people, you’ve got to think, I’m going to shake your hand and you’re an honourable person.
“After the betrayal post the 2019 election, we do not believe them to be honourable. Simple as that, so the answer is no.”
Last weekend, Nigel Farage celebrated a monumental milestone for his party as he boasted a whopping 200,000, leaving the Conservatives in the dust on 131,680.
Now, the start-up party is aiming to overtake Labour’s total party membership of 309,000.