Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party widened its lead over the governing Labour Party in the wake of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and others attempting to tarnish the upstart populist party as racist.
Prime Minister Starmer’s desperate bid to halt the growing support for Farage by turning to the classic leftist political playbook of castigating opponents as bigots appears to have backfired. A poll of 2,050 UK adults conducted by Opinium in the aftermath of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool last week found that Reform increased its support by two points to 34 per cent, while Labour slid another point down to 21 per cent.
