Many conservative MPs are terrified Farage’s Reform Party will put the final nail in their coffin, not by winning their seat but by taking enough votes to hand power to Labour.
Nigel Farage’s populist Reform party has overtaken the ruling UK Conservatives in the opinion polls for the first time, in a further, suggests that public support for Reform is now at 19 per cent, up two points and a point above the Tories on 18 per cent with the election less than three weeks away.Labour was in the lead on 37, while the Liberal Democrats were down one point at 14 per cent, according to the survey of more than 2200 adults taken on Wednesday and Thursday.
, the Tories have this week adopted a strategy of warning that people who vote Reform could hand Labour a super-majority that would put Labour in power for a decade or more.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer set out plans to raise £8.6 billion in tax at his election platform on Thursday, promising to “relight the fires” of economic growth and bring “Conservative chaos” to an end.
As attention turns to the future of the Conservatives after July 4, Farage on Thursday said he would be willing to lead a merged Reform-Conservative party after the election.“I think something new is going to emerge on the centre-right, I don’t know what it is called,” he told London radio LBC.“But do I think I am capable of leading a national opposition to a Labour Party with a big majority where I can stand up and hold them to account on issues? Yes.”He added: “They may be dead.
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