{"id":91995,"date":"2025-05-11T05:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T05:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91995\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T05:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T05:59:11","slug":"reform-uk-just-handed-major-boost-by-five-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91995\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK just handed major boost by FIVE polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">In the space of just two days this week, five polls &#8211; all by different pollsters &#8211; placed Reform UK on top.<\/p>\n<p>Data from More In Common, YouGov, Find Out Now, Techne UK and BMG Research has revealed that growing numbers of Britons would vote for Nigel Farage&#8217;s party if a General Election were held tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>In order, Reform polled at 27, 29, 33, 28 and 32 per cent &#8211; just days after it surged to local election and by-election success across the land on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>Of that quintet of polls, the 33 per cent figure by Find Out Now has raised eyebrows across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>It also ranked Labour at 20 per cent, the Tories on 16, the Lib Dems on 15 and the Greens on 11.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"e4b1a\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"5368d7678e6d2188f353edacf4dc5394\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201590%20868'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/find-out-now-poll.jpg\" width=\"1590\" height=\"868\" alt=\"Find Out Now poll\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The 33 per cent figure by Find Out Now has raised eyebrows across the political spectrum<\/p>\n<p>FIND OUT NOW<\/p>\n<p>Analysis by Election Maps UK has found that, if the five parties received such a vote share at a General Election, it could trigger a major Reform surge &#8211; one which could dismantle Britain&#8217;s historically stable two-party rule by a staggering degree.<\/p>\n<p>Spread out across the country, Farage&#8217;s party would take back 365 seats &#8211; an 80-seat majority.<\/p>\n<p>Labour would be reduced from its 411 MPs returned in 2024 to just 97.<\/p>\n<p>The Tories would be relegated from His Majesty&#8217;s Loyal Opposition to become Britain&#8217;s fifth-largest party.<\/p>\n<p>Kemi Badenoch&#8217;s party, on 23 seats, would be overtaken by both the Lib Dems and SNP &#8211; on 83 and 40 seats respectively &#8211; while both the Greens and Plaid Cymru would increase their headcount in the Commons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LATEST MEMBERSHIP STORIES ON REFORM&#8217;S POLLING SURGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"04fca\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"8c5a800dff7e7c30e5027a64f15b8a88\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%203966%202522'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/farage.jpg\" width=\"3966\" height=\"2522\" alt=\"Farage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Data from More In Common, YouGov, Find Out Now, Techne UK and BMG Research has revealed that growing numbers of Britons would vote for Nigel Farage&#8217;s party<\/p>\n<p>GETTY<\/p>\n<p>Find Out Now said the data can be largely explained by a large drop in Conservative support among over-65s.<\/p>\n<p>Reform were now the largest party in that age group for the first time, it added, while 62 per cent of previous non-voters would also switch to Reform.<\/p>\n<p>The party&#8217;s potential 40-seat majority &#8211; labelled &#8220;walloping&#8221; by chairman Zia Yusuf &#8211; would see Farage take the keys to No10, and open the door to &#8211; if the party follows through on its manifesto commitments &#8211; sweeping changes to Britain&#8217;s political landscape.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"5c445\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"d82682b17d310169aa77b229033f5691\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201600%20900'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/farage-electoral-map.png\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Farage\/Electoral map\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Spread out across the country, Farage&#8217;s party would take back 365 seats &#8211; an 80-seat majority<\/p>\n<p>GETTY\/X\/ELECTIONMAPSUK<\/p>\n<p>But in a call for cool heads, polling guru <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/politics\/reform-uk-election-2025-nigel-farage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sir John Curtice told GB News that Britain may be already experiencing &#8220;peak Reform&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He explained: &#8220;Reform is appealing to voters who believe in Brexit, are concerned about immigration, and tend to be on the conservative side of the culture wars arguments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, older male voters who are less educated, he said, claiming that there&#8217;s a limit to how much Reform can tap into this base.<\/p>\n<p>That has done little to quell Yusuf&#8217;s bullish remarks, however.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;History is being written,&#8221; 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