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Post by Admin on Jun 28, 2024 18:19:42 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 28, 2024 18:22:21 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 28, 2024 23:41:51 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 29, 2024 4:39:17 GMT
The Tories appeared to be on the brink of catastrophe in the general election as a new poll gave Nigel Farage’s Reform UK a three-point lead.
The Whitestone poll for Reach plc newspapers put Reform on 21 per cent, the Tories on just 18 per cent while Labour maintained a clear lead on 38 per cent.
The devastating result for Mr Sunak means that the position of leader of the opposition, which Mr Farage covets, appears to be wide open.
However, according to Electoral Calculus in a general election this would leave the Conservatives on a mere 50 seats, give Reform 29 but the Lib Dems would be the official opposition with 74 seats.
The shock poll comes despite a string of scandals to hit Reform and Mr Farage over the last week.
Just last night Channel 4 released footage of a Reform canvasser in in Clacton, where Farage hopes to become the MP, caught making racial slurs against the prime minister Rishi Sunak.
This followed a candidate stepping away from the party for historic comments praising Hitler and Mr Farage himself being accused of “appeasing Vladimir Putin” by blaming the west for the invasion of Ukraine.
But the poll reveals that anger against the Tories among their traditional supporters appears to be continuing to fuel Reform’s march up the poll rankings.
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Post by Admin on Jun 30, 2024 0:43:47 GMT
Reform UK is headed by Nigel Farage, a 60-year-old former member of the European Parliament who campaigned for Brexit. During his election campaign, Mr Farage repeated the slogan "Make Britain Great Again", similar to the slogan of former US President Donald Trump, a close friend of his, and threatened to "drive illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel by boat back to France". claims.
At one point, the party surpassed the Conservative Party in approval ratings. According to a poll by British research firm YouGov as of June 13, Reform UK has a support rating of 19%, while the Conservative Party has an approval rating of 18%. The largest opposition party, the Labor Party, had 37%.
However, in the House of Commons elections, all seats are determined by single-seat constituencies, giving an advantage to the two major parties, and it will be difficult for the newly formed Reform UK, which lacks national organizational strength, to win seats commensurate with its support rate. YouGov predicts the party will win five seats.
On the 21st, Mr. Farage said on a BBC program that Russia's invasion of Ukraine occurred as a result of "provocation by the West." He is said to be similar to Trump in that he offers interpretations that are favorable to Russia.
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