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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during the Reform UK North West Essex conference at Parklands Quendon Hall, in Quendon, Essex, January 31, 2025
CAMPAIGNERS have warned Labour to change course as the hard-right Reform party surged into a polling lead for the first time.
A YouGov survey put Reform narrowly ahead of both Labour and the Tories, in a breakthrough for Nigel Farage’s party.
Reform polled at 25 per cent, with Labour on 24 per cent and the Tories on 21 per cent.
By-election poll puts Starmer's future on a knife-edge
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
