Labour slips to second place behind Farage’s party in new poll Daily Telegraph 04/08/26 Reform UK has regained its lead over Labour in a YouGov poll that suggests the “Burnham bounce” has subsided. Andy Burnham’s popularity was credited with ending Reform’s long period of poll dominance last week as a first voting intention survey in 16 months saw Nigel Farage’s party fall to second place. However, the latest YouGov voting intention survey puts Reform on 23 per cent, up one percentage point and ahead of Labour on an unchanged 22 per cent. Dr Patrick English, the pollster’s head of elections and political data, told The Telegraph: “I would say that there certainly has been a positive response from the British public to Labour’s removal of Keir Starmer and replacement with Andy Burnham, who is currently the most positively rated party leader that we are measuring. “There has been a response there, and I think that’s to be expected, but even though Burnham leads our favourability r...
Reform should enter into a coalition, but with the mainstream Right not the hard Right Daily Telegraph 03/08/26 Regardless of their recent slip in the polls, it’s been clear for some time Reform can only take power at the next election as part of a Right-leaning coalition . But Nigel Farage will be making a huge mistake if he pursues any pact with Rupert Lowe’s Restore. This risks sending Reform tumbling further in the polls and drastically reducing the prospect of victory. Speaking today at a press conference on illegal immigration, Farage said he was open to an informal chat with Lowe’s party . This came after Lowe’s prior offer of a closer relationship and Farage’s comment at the weekend that he wanted to create a broad coalition on the Right to rescue Britain Farage needs to walk back this offer of a chat. A relationship that ended so appallingly between the two men is irreparable. The characters of the two men are such that a sensible working relationship could never happen. And a...