In the latest YouGov poll for The Times, Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has surpassed Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party for the first time. With less than three weeks until the July 4 election, 19% of voters have shown their preference for Reform UK, compared to 18% for the Tories, while the Labor Party holds a strong lead at 37%.
Farage announced that Reform UK has become the main opposition party to Labor and is ahead of the Conservatives in every part of the country except Scotland. Buoyed by the success of far-right parties in the European elections, Farage urged the British people to join the rebellion against an imminent Labor majority.
The latest polls have raised concerns among the Tories about losing votes to the right and the possibility of a Labor “supermajority”. The conservatives have been urging voters not to sign “a blank cheque” for Labor and prevent the country from becoming a “one-party socialist state.”
Farage’s announcement of his candidacy in Clacton constituency has changed the dynamics of
