Reform slumps into third place behind the Tories in another poll
This comes after Farage blasted another poll that put Reform in third place
Reform UK has placed third in another poll of UK voting intentions, in a further blow to Nigel Farage.
Reform UK has fallen into third place behind the Tories in a YouGov poll for Sky and The Times published today.
The survey puts the hard right party on 20%, seven points behind Andy Burnham’s Labour and one point behind the Tories.
The findings of the latest YouGov poll come as support for Reform appears to have nosedived for the party amid successive scandals, including the undeclared £5 million donation Farage received from Christopher Harborne.
Reform councillors were also recently filmed by undercover reporters making a raft of racist, misogynistic and Islamophobic comments.
On Sunday, Farage attacked polling by Lord Ashcroft which predicted that Reform would come in third place at the next election.
The Lord Ashcroft Polls survey put Reform UK a staggering thirteen points behind Labour on 18%.
In a strongly-worded social media post, Farage called Ashcroft’s poll for the Daily Mail “totally dishonest” and sought to undermine his polling, saying Ashcroft was a “Tory donor who isn’t even a member of the British Polling Council”.
Farage added: “He had us at 21% in May and we achieved 28% – his polling has been proven as bogus time and time again.”
The Conservatives have also overtaken Reform UK in The Telegraph’s poll tracker for the first time in almost two years.
The poll tracker shows the Tories in second place behind Labour on 28.7%, with 21.73%, after pulling ahead of Reform on 21.66%.
While Farage tried to brush off Lord Ashcroft’s recent poll as inaccurate, these polls also put his party in third place.
Commenting on the YouGov poll, journalist Don McGowan wrote on X: “There is no anomaly. This is not a glitch in the matrix.
“Reform UK are in dire straits. Being mired in sleaze, crime and racism is not very endearing to the public it turns out.”
Olivia Barber is a reporter at Left Foot Forward
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