Reform could win scores of seats from Labour, says poll

Nigel Farage is on course to unseat more Labour MPs than Tories at the next general election with his Reform UK party surging in the polls.

- ARCHIE MITCHELL

And, just six months after Reform formed a bridgehead in parliament with five MPs, the survey revealed it would win 76 seats if an election were held now, with 60 of these currently held by the Labour Party.

Reform overtook the Conservatives in every major poll last week for the first time, with Techne’s weekly tracker for The Independent putting the party one point ahead of the Tories on 24 per cent. Mr Farage’s party is also a whisker away from Labour, which sits on just 26 per cent, the poll revealed.

He told The Independent this week that this is just the beginning of a slide for the Tories, warning the party will now “start to fall quickly”. And an MRP poll, carried out for the campaign group Hope Not Hate by Focaldata, revealed that Labour is even more vulnerable to the rise of Mr Farage’s party.