For the first time, a major poll by YouGov reveals that Nigel Farage's Reform UK is leading all other political parties in Britain. The party, which only gained Members of Parliament last year, is projected to secure 25% of the vote in a hypothetical general election, surpassing both Labour (24%) and the Conservatives (21%). This surge in popularity is attributed to Reform UK's strong voter loyalty and the defection of voters from other parties, including both Labour and the Conservatives.
Reform UK is narrowly ahead of all other political parties in Britain according to the findings of a major pollster for the first time, adding evidence to suggest a general trend in favour of Nigel Farage’s nascent faction.
The result means that the populist party has pulled ahead — but “within the margin of error”, YouGov reminds us — of Britain’s legacy parties of government. While Reform has picked up two points since the last poll in late January, Labour has lost a more statistically significant three points, falling to 24 per cent. The Conservatives lost another point since the last round, continuing their record-low run of polling at 21 per cent.
The demographic breakdown of the YouGov figures published Monday evening also appeared to buttress trends already identified elsewhere, namely that Reform’s onward march in the polls is due to a combination of retaining an impressive level of loyalty among its own voters while also recruiting a good number of defectors from elsewhere.
Despite that Reform are doggedly portrayed as right-wing extremists in much of the UK press, an impressive eight per cent of 2024 Labour voters now say they would back Farage’s faction, something like three-quarters of a million Labour defectors to the Reform camp. This may vindicate Farage’s plan to go after Labour’s historic working-class voter base, who may have backed the party tribally in the past but are poorly represented by its modern metropolitan-liberal leadership.
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