Reform holds seven-point lead over Labour – in further boost to Farage’s PM hopes

Reform holds seven-point lead over Labour – in further boost to Farage’s PM hopes



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  1. Nigel Farage remains on course to potentially become Prime Minister – despite Labour making up ground on Reform UK in recent weeks, new polling suggests.

    Reform UK is down one point from last month but is seven points ahead of Sir Keir Starmer’s party on 31 per cent, according to the latest BMG Research poll for *The i Paper*.

    Labour has managed to close the gap gaining two points following a [U-turn on the unpopular decision to cut winter fuel payments to pensioners](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/winter-fuel-u-turn-after-no10-overcomes-opposition-from-rachel-reeves-3707546?ico=in-line_link), but is still behind Reform UK on 24 per cent.

    The next general election is still years away, but if these numbers were replicated, Reform UK would win a “commanding majority” and Farage would be on course to enter Downing Street, BMG Research pollster Jack Curry said.

    Curry said that the [second month running of Reform polling above 30 per cent](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/reform-record-10-point-lead-over-labour-farage-3685725?ito=twitter_share_article-top&ico=in-line_link) suggested Farage’s growing support was “no fluke” as there had been a “continuation of a clear and growing trend”.

    The poll results further signify the dramatic reshaping of Britain’s electoral landscape.

    It was largely conducted before Starmer launched an all-out attack on Reform UK’s economic policies, suggesting they would lead to a [Liz Truss-style economic meltdown,](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/farages-policies-risk-truss-mini-budget-market-chaos-economists-3717092?ico=in-line_link) and Labour will hope this can put a dent in Farage’s success.

    Labour’s modest fightback in the last month comes after the Prime Minister signed a deal with the EU he said would bring down supermarket food prices, and after he pledged a U-turn scrapping the universal winter fuel allowance after his MPs warned the decision harmed the party in this month’s local elections where Reform UK made sweeping gains.

    The Brexit reset deal alongside trade agreements with the United States and India may have helped Starmer boost his satisfaction level by nine points, although he is still unpopular with a net satisfaction rating of -31 per cent.

    Farage’s personal ratings meanwhile held steady, with a net satisfaction rating of +2 per cent.

  2. Lmao how are people falling for the grift yet again.

  3. When them and the Tories were miles behind Labour during an actual election cycle/campaign it was all “the polls don’t know anything”

    Now we’re the best part of half a decade away from an election and they’re ahead it’s “a boost to PM hopes” and polls are lauded in comment sections everywhere

    Weird that.

  4. Hey inews, can you send the Daily Mail lot back to their own rag and go back to how you was before the independent sold you?

  5. Transpose that lead onto FPTP and it collapses, he’s not becoming PM.

  6. Polls this far from an election are totally pointless and we’re already seeing at the local and national level how useless and uninterested reform are.

  7. Don’t worry Keith going to totally fuck it in the next 4 years and turn that lead into a landslide

  8. So British voters are just as stupid as US voters. It’s sad to see how much this country has fallen in the last 15 years. Meanwhile, Starmer keeps chasing votes he’ll never get because those people live in a different reality bubble, whilst at the same time throwing away votes from previous Labour voters by being as bad as the tories were in 2012.

  10. I wish I could make people who I lie to believe me for the umpteenth time like Farage does.

    … Imagine what I could do; I could make the UK great again.

  11. Inews is the daily mail in disguise. Ignore their bullshit and move along.

  12. If you vote for reform you will destroy the economy, the NHS and the environment. Medicine will become unaffordable and you’ll all be eating shitty chlorinated chicken.

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