{"id":94745,"date":"2025-05-12T07:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T07:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/94745\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T07:14:10","slug":"nigel-farages-reform-uk-overtakes-tories-in-london-as-labour-slumps-shock-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/94745\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK overtakes Tories in London as Labour slumps, shock poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reform UK<\/a> has jumped ahead of the Conservatives in London<\/a> as support for Labour<\/a> has plunged, a new poll<\/a> has found.<\/p>\n

The survey by Find Out Now shows Nigel Farage<\/a>\u2019s party surging to 19%, ahead of the Tories<\/a> on 17%, down three percentage points since the General Election.<\/p>\n

Labour still has a comfortable lead in the capital, one of its strongholds, but backing for Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s party has plunged 13 percentage points since July last year to 30%.<\/p>\n

Both the Lib Dems on 16%, up five points, and Greens on 15%, also up five points, have benefited from the backlash against the Government, according to the poll commissioned by Reform.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s leader Mr Farage said: \u201cThis new London polling is strong for Reform and it\u2019s before we have even got going.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven in our least advanced region we are ahead of a dying Conservative Party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twenty-five per cent of Reform\u2019s backers in the capital voted Conservative at the General Election, compared to 5% who supported Labour last July.<\/p>\n

Twelve per cent of Green supporters in London voted Labour at the General Election, as did 9% of Lib Dem backers.<\/p>\n

So far out from the next General Election, most likely to take place in 2029, 32% of Londoners say they \u201cdon\u2019t know\u201d how they would vote, according to the poll which has a margin of error of around three per cent.<\/p>\n

\"Tory<\/p>\n

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch who is seeking to rebuild her party (PA Wire)<\/p>\n

But the survey, which sought to \u201csqueeze\u201d the \u201cdon\u2019t knows\u201d to encourage them to state a party, is another blow to the Tories, and their leader Kemi Badenoch, in their battle to remain one of the two major parties in Britain\u2019s increasingly fractured politics. <\/a><\/p>\n

Labour would still be in pole position to win the London mayoralty in 2028, on 33%, compared to Reform and the Tories on 20% each, the Greens 13% and Lib-Dems 10%.<\/p>\n

Reform could increase their number of London Assembly members from one to five.<\/p>\n

Alex Wilson, Reform UK Assembly Member, said: \u201cThis shows real momentum following Reform UK\u2019s seismic election results on 1st May.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The surge in support for Reform in London is particularly among the elderly.<\/p>\n

Thirty-five per cent of Londoners aged 65 to 74 say they would vote for Reform at the next General Election, and 33% for the 75 and over age group.<\/p>\n

This compares to 6% for Londoners aged 18 to 29.<\/p>\n

Male Londoners are more likely to back Reform than women, with the party getting support of 21% and 16% respectively.<\/p>\n

The Tories now have just nine MPs left in the capital and zero in central London.<\/a><\/p>\n

If the poll proves correct, the Conservative MP most vulnerable to a Reform surge appears to be Julia Lopez in Hornchurch and Upminster who gained 15,260 votes last July, compared to Reform\u2019s Nick Palmer getting 13,317.<\/p>\n

\"Romford<\/p>\n

Romford MP Andrew Rosindell who could be one of the Tories under threat from a Reform surge (PA Archive)<\/p>\n

Andrew Rosindell in Romford could also face a battle to keep his seat, having gained 15,339 votes, to Labour\u2019s Andrew Achilleos on 13,876, and Reform\u2019s Philip Hyde on 9,624.<\/p>\n

Other Tory MPs could end up losing to Labour, if Reform eat mainly into their vote, including Chris Philp in Croydon South and Peter Fortune in Bromley and Biggin Hill.<\/p>\n

Separate polling has suggested that the only Tory who could beat Nigel Farage is Boris Johnson. <\/a><\/p>\n

* Find Out Now surveyed 1102 London adults from May 4 to 8. Data is weighted to be representative by gender, age, London region, ethnicity and 2024 General Election vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform UK has jumped ahead of the Conservatives in London as support for Labour has plunged, a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,8414,257,16130,386,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-94745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-labour","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-london-assembly","14":"tag-reform-uk","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114493631061240049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}