Labour 'obliterated' if election held tomorrow

IF A general election were to be held tomorrow, Labour would be obliterated in Wales, new polling has shown.

- BY RUTH MOSALSKI

Pollster YouGov has asked people across the UK how they would vote in a general election, and in Wales it shows Reform would take 21 of the 32 seats in Wales.

In 2024, Labour won a historic 172-seat majority but the poll projects they would not only lose their majority, falling to 178 but become the second party by some distance.

It would, their polling shows, be a hung parliament in which Reform UK would be the largest party.

Nigel Farage's party would come out of an election with 271 seats, an enormous improvement on their 2024 total of five, placing the party close to government.

The polling is based on 11,500 people questioned between May 29 and June 18.

Reform UK would be the largest party in each of the East Midlands, east of England, north east, south east, Wales, West Midlands, and Yorkshire and the Humber areas under the estimate, as well as being tied with Labour in the north west.