Reform UK has seen its support climb to 10 per cent ahead of an election year press launch next week.
The party, led by Richard Tice, secured its biggest share yet in a People Polling survey. The poll of nearly 2,000 voters showed Labour heading for a Commons majority if an election was held today.
Labour was on 45 per cent, the Tories on 23 per cent and Liberal Democrats on 10 per cent – the same as Reform UK – according to the poll, carried out for GB News.
The poll also found that 54 percent of those questioned feel worse off now than a year ago. Two thirds said it was “time for a change in Westminster”.
Prof Matthew Goodwin, of People Polling, said: “This is further evidence, after a disastrous year in the polls for Rishi Sunak, that the Conservatives are failing to turn the tide.
“Worryingly for Rishi Sunak, it’s not just that the Labour share of the vote which remains strong but a significant share of his own voters are now defecting to the Reform party.
“Reform is now on 10 per cent of the national vote, drawing more than one in five disillusioned 2019 Tories.”
Reform UK will stage a press conference next Wednesday to kickstart its election year campaigning, at which it will attempt to broaden its appeal to win over Brexit-voting Labour supporters who switched to the Tories but are sceptical about Sir Keir Starmer’s party.
“They are really unhappy with the failure of the Tories to deliver what they promised, but don’t tell me people who voted for Brexit think Keir Starmer is bang on the money,” said a Reform UK source.
The party plans to put up a candidate for each of the 650 Commons seats, with a promise to cover the cost of any of their lost £500 deposits.
Party officials accept they are unlikely to capture any parliamentary seats because of their lack of a geographical concentration of supporters.
“We are not targeting places, we are targeting people. We believe very strongly that you can go to Glasgow or South West Surrey, and you will still find 10 per cent to 15 per cent of Red Wall voters who will back us. They are everywhere,” said the source.
The poll showed voters wanted the Government to focus on tackling the cost of living crisis, followed by improving the NHS and stopping the small boats.
It revealed that Baroness Thatcher was the most popular choice when voters were asked which former prime minister they would like to bring back to Number 10 today, followed by Winston Churchill and Tony Blair.
Prof Goodwin added: “The British people are clearly in the mood for a conviction politician who is unafraid to shake up the consensus to get Britain working. But where is today’s Thatcher?
“Look at the leadership ratings of Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer and you’d be hard pressed to find one.”
Strange how they consistently underperformed at every by-election so far then.
If “Reform” were going somewhere, it would have happened by now.
If it transpires that interest rates have peaked, the “economic malaise” window for Reform to exploit is rapidly closing.
“•Reduce the main Corporation tax rate from 25% to 20%.
• Lift threshold for 40% income tax rate to £70,000.
• Reduce and simplify residential Stamp Duty: 0% below £750k, 2% on £750k–£1.5m, & 4% above, will stimulate economic activity and construction.
• Abolish the burdensome Apprenticeship Levy, which ironically reduced apprentice numbers.
• Abolish business rates for small & medium firms, offset with Online Delivery Tax at 3%, which will create a fairer playing field for High Street and physical versus online businesses.
• Abolish Stamp Duty on share trading, this will help savers and enable the City to compete globally.
• Abolish Inheritance Tax for all estates under £2m (98% of all estates). 20% tax above £2m — executors can choose to give this to registered charities or HMRC.
• Abolish the burdensome IR35 rules introduced by the Conservatives in recent years.
• We aim to reform the over-complicated tax system on savings and pensions, that currently benefits those with the most to save at the expense of those on lower incomes.”
Say what you want, at least they have policies you can agree/disagree with.
Posted by a very right wing newspaper….. Most be totally legit
The whole Reform UK is like 5 people and they are all on GB news.
In most political/social polls I see the absolute nuttiest proposal or whatever always gets around 15%-20%, sometimes even 30% of the vote. Reform have a huge mountain to climb if they want the British public to take them seriously.
Good – split the Tory vote and enjoy cancelling the rest of the Brexit bad dream over the next 10 years.
Just as Change UK / The Independent Group were simply a vessel for disgruntled pointy elbowed SW1 types to project all their technocratic “Davos man” desires onto, Reform are simply the same but for a mixture of disillusioned former UKIP voters, fed up ex Tories, libertarians and these days also conspiracy theorists.
Reform like all other parties if they ever got any real power would have the issue of reconciling the “stop the boats and kick them all out, protect British industries and the NHS” crowd with the “cut regulation on the City and corporates and we want more globalisation and privatisation” crowd.
Tice is not a charismatic leader, and Oakeshott is just utterly stuck up and unpleasant. Without Farage, or indeed someone with a big personality in a similar mould, I can’t really see them getting anywhere.
I still fear this whole Tory vote split is more of a ruse. They either just want the tories to adopt some of their policies to stand down or get Nigel setup to join the tories or something, but I don’t fully believe they hand labour a clear win just out of principle
Do they support Electoral Reform to a system of Proportional Representation?
Anyone voting for reform instead of Tories is just uneducated, they’re just a different Tory party that are trying to push the Tories even further to the right.
If you want to vote someone other than Labour or Tory there are options such as Greens, Lib Dems or Independent.
Prof Goodwin preaching to the Torygraph choir. He’s been banging the Reform UK drum with Tice / Whittle et al but they aren’t making a showing at the ballot box.
As amusing as it is, a lot of these votes will go back to the Tories. The type of voter who proclaims protest voting reform loves getting the boot on their face too much to truly protest vote.
Reform’s problem is that they have zero viability as a third party platform. The only way they can influence politics is by threatening the tory rule by splitting votes from them.
This is not good news.
We have a political crisis caused by the governing party going full in on radical populism. But the problem with radical positions is that it is never enough – there is always are more extreme, a more xenophobe, a more reactionary position in the right. And the government is under pressure from the right, as we can see here, so they keep moving right.
Yes, this makes it more likely for Labour to win. But it always makes it harder to bring our political system back into balance.
Reform really dont have any policies im aware of. The best thing for the UK would be for both Labour and Tories to be voted out of the political landscape forever. Both corrupt, dismal, useless entities that should be extinct 😎
the Tories are talking tough, but totally failing to deliver, im not not surprised the “stops the boats” crowd are looking elsewhere
I thought to myself, “how is this possible?” Then saw it hailed from the telegraph
They have shit policies that I wouldn’t vote for except for their line on immigration. That will be the case for many people when they see that it’s the only party promising to halt the net inflow of people.
The real answer is for mainstream parties to do something about this issue instead of making it worse than ever (as the tories have done despite campaigning for the opposite).
Been off twitter a bit but fook me gbeebies farage fox all over my feed. Disgastin.
They want ‘ Brexit done properly’ . Any idea what that means ? We had a hard Brexit that’s what they wanted .
And at the election they’ll get about 2%. They have no activists and no ground game. Even UKIP had those, even though they were a mess.
Tories are crap. Labour is crap. Libs, greens and the rest aren’t worth bothering with. Refom are unknown as yet. The uk system is very broken with no fix in sight.
Where is lord sutch when you need him…
Basically the rightest of the right in the Conservative Party will shift over post the next election decimation and the Tories will be left with the one nation conservatives
It’s so easy for organisations like Reform and GB News to get a following because our “establishment” have taken the people for granted for so many years.
The scary thing is that Reform could end up forming a coalition government which is the first step for them to start achieving power.
They are the Four Star party from the Russell T Davies drama “Years & Years”
No policies other than bullshit and funded by some dark bastards in the shadows
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Reform UK has seen its support climb to 10 per cent ahead of an election year press launch next week.
The party, led by Richard Tice, secured its biggest share yet in a People Polling survey. The poll of nearly 2,000 voters showed Labour heading for a Commons majority if an election was held today.
Labour was on 45 per cent, the Tories on 23 per cent and Liberal Democrats on 10 per cent – the same as Reform UK – according to the poll, carried out for GB News.
The poll also found that 54 percent of those questioned feel worse off now than a year ago. Two thirds said it was “time for a change in Westminster”.
Prof Matthew Goodwin, of People Polling, said: “This is further evidence, after a disastrous year in the polls for Rishi Sunak, that the Conservatives are failing to turn the tide.
“Worryingly for Rishi Sunak, it’s not just that the Labour share of the vote which remains strong but a significant share of his own voters are now defecting to the Reform party.
“Reform is now on 10 per cent of the national vote, drawing more than one in five disillusioned 2019 Tories.”
Reform UK will stage a press conference next Wednesday to kickstart its election year campaigning, at which it will attempt to broaden its appeal to win over Brexit-voting Labour supporters who switched to the Tories but are sceptical about Sir Keir Starmer’s party.
“They are really unhappy with the failure of the Tories to deliver what they promised, but don’t tell me people who voted for Brexit think Keir Starmer is bang on the money,” said a Reform UK source.
The party plans to put up a candidate for each of the 650 Commons seats, with a promise to cover the cost of any of their lost £500 deposits.
Party officials accept they are unlikely to capture any parliamentary seats because of their lack of a geographical concentration of supporters.
“We are not targeting places, we are targeting people. We believe very strongly that you can go to Glasgow or South West Surrey, and you will still find 10 per cent to 15 per cent of Red Wall voters who will back us. They are everywhere,” said the source.
The poll showed voters wanted the Government to focus on tackling the cost of living crisis, followed by improving the NHS and stopping the small boats.
It revealed that Baroness Thatcher was the most popular choice when voters were asked which former prime minister they would like to bring back to Number 10 today, followed by Winston Churchill and Tony Blair.
Prof Goodwin added: “The British people are clearly in the mood for a conviction politician who is unafraid to shake up the consensus to get Britain working. But where is today’s Thatcher?
“Look at the leadership ratings of Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer and you’d be hard pressed to find one.”
Strange how they consistently underperformed at every by-election so far then.
If “Reform” were going somewhere, it would have happened by now.
If it transpires that interest rates have peaked, the “economic malaise” window for Reform to exploit is rapidly closing.
“•Reduce the main Corporation tax rate from 25% to 20%.
• Lift threshold for 40% income tax rate to £70,000.
• Reduce and simplify residential Stamp Duty: 0% below £750k, 2% on £750k–£1.5m, & 4% above, will stimulate economic activity and construction.
• Abolish the burdensome Apprenticeship Levy, which ironically reduced apprentice numbers.
• Abolish business rates for small & medium firms, offset with Online Delivery Tax at 3%, which will create a fairer playing field for High Street and physical versus online businesses.
• Abolish Stamp Duty on share trading, this will help savers and enable the City to compete globally.
• Abolish Inheritance Tax for all estates under £2m (98% of all estates). 20% tax above £2m — executors can choose to give this to registered charities or HMRC.
• Abolish the burdensome IR35 rules introduced by the Conservatives in recent years.
• We aim to reform the over-complicated tax system on savings and pensions, that currently benefits those with the most to save at the expense of those on lower incomes.”
Say what you want, at least they have policies you can agree/disagree with.
Posted by a very right wing newspaper….. Most be totally legit
The whole Reform UK is like 5 people and they are all on GB news.
In most political/social polls I see the absolute nuttiest proposal or whatever always gets around 15%-20%, sometimes even 30% of the vote. Reform have a huge mountain to climb if they want the British public to take them seriously.
Good – split the Tory vote and enjoy cancelling the rest of the Brexit bad dream over the next 10 years.
Just as Change UK / The Independent Group were simply a vessel for disgruntled pointy elbowed SW1 types to project all their technocratic “Davos man” desires onto, Reform are simply the same but for a mixture of disillusioned former UKIP voters, fed up ex Tories, libertarians and these days also conspiracy theorists.
Reform like all other parties if they ever got any real power would have the issue of reconciling the “stop the boats and kick them all out, protect British industries and the NHS” crowd with the “cut regulation on the City and corporates and we want more globalisation and privatisation” crowd.
Tice is not a charismatic leader, and Oakeshott is just utterly stuck up and unpleasant. Without Farage, or indeed someone with a big personality in a similar mould, I can’t really see them getting anywhere.
I still fear this whole Tory vote split is more of a ruse. They either just want the tories to adopt some of their policies to stand down or get Nigel setup to join the tories or something, but I don’t fully believe they hand labour a clear win just out of principle
Do they support Electoral Reform to a system of Proportional Representation?
Anyone voting for reform instead of Tories is just uneducated, they’re just a different Tory party that are trying to push the Tories even further to the right.
If you want to vote someone other than Labour or Tory there are options such as Greens, Lib Dems or Independent.
Prof Goodwin preaching to the Torygraph choir. He’s been banging the Reform UK drum with Tice / Whittle et al but they aren’t making a showing at the ballot box.
As amusing as it is, a lot of these votes will go back to the Tories. The type of voter who proclaims protest voting reform loves getting the boot on their face too much to truly protest vote.
Reform’s problem is that they have zero viability as a third party platform. The only way they can influence politics is by threatening the tory rule by splitting votes from them.
This is not good news.
We have a political crisis caused by the governing party going full in on radical populism. But the problem with radical positions is that it is never enough – there is always are more extreme, a more xenophobe, a more reactionary position in the right. And the government is under pressure from the right, as we can see here, so they keep moving right.
Yes, this makes it more likely for Labour to win. But it always makes it harder to bring our political system back into balance.
Reform really dont have any policies im aware of. The best thing for the UK would be for both Labour and Tories to be voted out of the political landscape forever. Both corrupt, dismal, useless entities that should be extinct 😎
the Tories are talking tough, but totally failing to deliver, im not not surprised the “stops the boats” crowd are looking elsewhere
I thought to myself, “how is this possible?” Then saw it hailed from the telegraph
They have shit policies that I wouldn’t vote for except for their line on immigration. That will be the case for many people when they see that it’s the only party promising to halt the net inflow of people.
The real answer is for mainstream parties to do something about this issue instead of making it worse than ever (as the tories have done despite campaigning for the opposite).
Been off twitter a bit but fook me gbeebies farage fox all over my feed. Disgastin.
They want ‘ Brexit done properly’ . Any idea what that means ? We had a hard Brexit that’s what they wanted .
And at the election they’ll get about 2%. They have no activists and no ground game. Even UKIP had those, even though they were a mess.
Tories are crap. Labour is crap. Libs, greens and the rest aren’t worth bothering with. Refom are unknown as yet. The uk system is very broken with no fix in sight.
Where is lord sutch when you need him…
Basically the rightest of the right in the Conservative Party will shift over post the next election decimation and the Tories will be left with the one nation conservatives
It’s so easy for organisations like Reform and GB News to get a following because our “establishment” have taken the people for granted for so many years.
The scary thing is that Reform could end up forming a coalition government which is the first step for them to start achieving power.
They are the Four Star party from the Russell T Davies drama “Years & Years”
No policies other than bullshit and funded by some dark bastards in the shadows