Reform UK are now just 7 points behind the Tories. What does this mean for Rishi Sunak?
Although Reform may not win any seats, if it maintains its polling position it will have a significant influence on the general election
Although Reform may not win any seats, if it maintains its polling position it will have a significant influence on the general election
The People Polling survey also found that Reform were polling at 12%, just eight points behind the Tories on 20%.
Could 2024 become remembered for the British people ‘hurling the findings of the opinion polls back into the faces of the pollsters,’ as Times’ journalist George Clarke wrote following the Tories’ shock win in 1970?
It’s being reported that the mysterious Conservative Britain Alliance (CBA), is now behind an increased push to get rid of Sunak before the election.
The revelations will undermine the Tory government’s claim that tax cuts are the way to turn around the economy,
Simon Clarke, who was a cabinet minister in Liz Truss’s short-lived government, urged Sunak to quit and make way for a new Tory leader.
‘Id be very surprised if he’s taking us into the election’
The comment is the latest confirmation that the Tories’ levelling up agenda is failing.
Even Fraser Nelson, editor of the right-wing Tory magazine, The Spectator, joined the criticism, likening Sunak’s X post to that of a ‘snakeoil salesman.’
Reports suggest as many as 30 MPs have submitted letters calling for a vote of no confidence