This was a long-shot, however, and as predicted in the polls, Labour won the 2024 general election by a landslide, winning 412 out of 650 seats. The sting in the tale for the Labour Party was that despite this large majority, they won a relatively low share of the votes and almost ...
A number of smaller parties are vying to win seats in the 650-member House of Commons, the U.K.’s lower house of parliament, including the Liberal Democrats, Greens, Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru, the Democratic Unionist Party andNigel Farage’s Reform UK. Votes will be cast across...
That disillusionment has given the opposition Labour Party a significant lead in the polls — but it has also given oxygen to Reform and its leader Nigel Farage, who is drawing growing numbers of Conservative voters with his pledge to “take our country back....
The result comes amid asurprisingly strong election performanceby Reform UK, which has a hardline stance on immigration and was born out of the Brexit Party. Exit polls indicate that the party could secure 13 parliamentary seats, having failed to win any in the 2019 election. ...
Watch the latest from ITV News - ITV News has uncovered what appears to be racist social media posts made by two candidates standing for the Reform UK party.
The poll puts Nigel Farage’s party on 19%, ahead of the Conservatives on 18%. Labour retains its poll lead at 37%, with the Liberal Democrats coming fourth on 14%. As with all polls, there is a margin of error – YouGov notes “we will not be able to tell for some time whether...
Property magnate Nick Candy has left the Conservative party to become the treasurer of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, the latest high-profile defection to the rightwing populist party as it rises in opinion polls. Candy, who has given more than £300,000 to the Tories, said he would donate ...
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Party leader Kemi Badenoch seeks to blunt threat posed by Reform UK Thursday, 6 February, 2025 Inside Politics Is Nigel Farage’s Reform hype outpacing reality? Tory insiders mull a pact with populist party though both camps officially oppose the idea ...
He said Reform’s performance showed that the party’s strong showing in national opinion polls was not “a mirage”. He added: “It makes life even more difficult for the Conservatives than it was already. The Conservatives are in trouble — there’s a new aspect to that trouble.” Damie...