Nigel Farage COULD topple Keir Starmer, shaken Labour MPs admit – after Reform topped new poll

NIGEL Farage is now more popular with voters than Sir Keir Starmer – as Reform surged ahead of Labour in the polls.

The populist party leader leapfrogged the Prime Minister in YouGov’s favourability tracker for the first time today.

Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK party, smiling.
Nigel Farage is more popular than Sir Keir StarmerCredit: Reuters
Bar chart showing UK voting intention: Reform UK (27%), Labour (25%), Conservative (21%), Lib Dem (14%), Green (9%), SNP (3%), Plaid Cymru (1%), Other (1%).
Reform have opened up a lead on Labour and the Tories in the polls

It will jangle nerves in Downing Street as the right-wing insurgents continue to make strides ahead of May’s local elections.

The poll revealed that if an election were held tomorrow, 27 per cent of Brits would vote for Reform, ahead of 25 for Labour and 21 for the Tories. 

A Marmite figure, Mr Farage has a net favourability rating of -30, with 60 per cent of people disliking him compared to 30 per cent who like him.

That is more popular than Sir Keir’s -40 score, with 66 per cent of respondents having an unfavourable view compared to 26 per cent favourable. 

It is also higher than Kemi Badenoch’s -34, from 51 per cent declaring her unfavourable and 17 per cent who like her. 

Many people have formed opinions on Mr. Farage and Sir Keir, but an interesting 31 percent of participants answered “don’t know” when questioned about the Tory leader.

It suggests she has struggled to make an impression as yet, but still has time to win people round.

Every single party leader was in negative territory, as is often the case in British political polling. 

Mr Farage’s slight uptick in February comes as he ramped up attacks on the government over mass migration and the controversial Chagos deal.

The leader of Reform is aiming to capitalize on the local elections in May to deliver more setbacks to the two primary parties and advance his goal of becoming prime minister in the future.

He has spent time professionaling the party in order to convert millions of votes into seats in Parliament.

Last July Reform won 14.3 per cent of the vote, but only 0.8 per cent of the constituencies.

Reform has all the momentum – but can Nigel Farage really become PM?

By JACK ELSOM, Chief Political Correspondent

DOES Nigel Farage finally stand on the precipice of becoming Prime Minister?

The man himself certainly hasn’t been coy in revealing his ambition for the top job.

All the momentum is with Reform: a membership surge, high-profile defections, mass rallies – and a Labour and Tory party struggling to land a glove.

With such wind under his sails, it’s becoming harder for the Brexiteer to contain his trademark Cheshire Cat grin.

Farage is not naive, he knows he has a mountain to climb. He has seen this movie before.

In his heyday with UKIP, he secured 12.5 per cent of the electorate in 2015 – and returned just one MP.

In July, Reform came third on votes with 14.3 per cent – and returned just five MPs.

Farage is a world-beater at galvanising a mass supporters movement, and has proved that time over.

But if he is serious about getting to No10, he needs to do something much more challenging: break a political system that has stood for centuries.

Getting millions of votes is all well and good, yet it counts for nowt if he’s coming second in hundreds of seats.

Farage is aware of this strategy and is making adjustments. Since taking on the role of leader, he and the remarkable chairman Zia Yusuf have been quietly working on making the Reform organization more professional.

No longer a cavalier rabble, they are looking to raise serious sums of cash to pour into data-driven campaigning and advertising.

Get that right, and Reform will become an even greater force to be reckoned with.

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