Labour has retaken the lead in a national poll following Sir Keir Starmer’s triple-header week of hiking defence spending, travelling to the White House and bolstering support for Ukraine.
Pollsters at YouGov surveyed Britons across Sunday and Monday – and the party of Government has gained two percentage points to leapfrog Reform UK to first place.
Labour now sits at 26 points, with Nigel Farage’s party at 25.
Both the Tories and Lib Dems saw their support fall by one and two points to sit at 21 and 14 points, respectively, while the Greens have gained one to take back nine per cent support.
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Labour now sits at 26 points, with Nigel Farage’s party at 25
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After running the figures through Electoral Calculus’s prediction tool, the polling would see Labour slump by 187 seats to just 217.
But Reform would surge to 175 seats – making them Britain’s second-largest party in the Commons.
It comes as the party – whose leadership have been happy to hail Donald Trump in the past – now faces an uneasy alliance with the US President, who on Monday night cancelled American military aid to Ukraine.
Just hours after YouGov’s polling emerged, Nigel Farage weighed into a growing row between British politicians and Vice President JD Vance – who looked to have implied that Britain and France were “random countries that hadn’t fought a war”.
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Labour has retaken the lead in a national poll following Sir Keir Starmer’s triple-header week of hiking defence spending, travelling to the White House and bolstering support for Ukraine
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The VP told Fox News that a potential Franco-British peacekeeping force in Ukraine would be just “20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.
Farage then told GB News: “JD Vance is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. For 20 years in Afghanistan, pro-rata, our size against America’s, we spent the same amount of money, we put the same number of men and women in, and we suffered the same losses.
“We stood by America all through those 20 years, putting in exactly the same contribution. And alright, they may be six times bigger, but we did our bit. On this one, JD is wrong.”
“I don’t even mention the UK or France in the clip, both of whom have fought bravely alongside the US over the last 20 years, and beyond,” Vance later said.
‘On this one, JD is wrong,’ Farage said
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Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice issued a staunch defence of his party’s Ukraine stance on Sunday.
Asked if he “regrets” the party’s support for Trump, he told GB News: “The reality is, everyone wants peace – and peace negotiations are always difficult, tense and there are difficult compromises to be made.
“Those negotiations are clearly best done behind closed doors, and most conflicts and wars end up in some form of negotiation.
“As Nigel has said, the only peace that works is an enduring, lasting peace with robust security guarantees. That should be the only focus. How do we make sure Putin is deterred from ever trying this monstrosity ever again?”