Britain's left-wing Labor government is losing voters to Nigel Farage's Reform Britain over mass immigration, a mega poll has found.
The UK Reform Party, which just sent five MPs to Westminster in July's general election, would jump to 120 seats if elections were held today, according to a seat-by-seat analysis conducted by political strategy firm Stonehaven. Dew.
Meanwhile, the left-wing Labor Party is expected to “slump” from 411 seats to 278, while the so-called Conservatives are expected to gain 157 seats. I paper report.
The survey found that 55% of voters who supported Labor in last year's election but now support reform cited immigration as their top concern, followed by health care at 47%, cost of living at 46% and energy. The price is 32%. cent.
Commenting on the party's surge in support, Reform UK Party chair Zia Yusuf said it showed the party was on the brink of “making history and winning the next general election”.
“Reformists won five seats in July. If we continue this poll for six months, we will win 120 seats,” he said. “Imagine where we will be in a year, imagine in four years. The century-long stranglehold between the two old political parties is finally breaking.”
Mr Stonehaven said their analysis showed Labour's support was “shallow”, pointing out that the party won a parliamentary majority with just 34 per cent of the national vote, so Labor had He pointed out that it was necessary to show that Labor's support was “shallow”. We can deal with mass immigration.
Luke Betham, the company's head of data science, said: “Immigration is the main issue that is driving them away from Labor,” adding: “Labour is voting for these people, not where the party wants them to vote. We should start by focusing on where the voters are,” he added. Get used to it.
“Unless immigration becomes part of the government's policy delivery narrative in the next election, the changes voted for in the last election will not be realized in their minds.”
Separately, investigation A YouGov poll this week found that 70% of Brits think immigration levels are too high, the highest level since the polling agency began tracking such figures in 2019.
Of those, 50% said there were “too many” immigrants, also a record high in the YouGov poll. Conversely, only 15% of respondents said they thought immigration levels in the UK were 'about right'.
Overall, the survey found the economy remains the top concern for voters, at 52%. Immigration is a close second at 46 percent, followed by health care at 40 percent.
Speaking at the Reform Britain conference in Leicester on Friday, party leader Nigel Farage argued that the problems facing Britain's economy and social services are inherently linked to mass immigration.
“My view is that the population explosion of more than 10 million people over the past 20 years is the biggest cause of the decline in our quality of life. They cannot climb the housing ladder, transportation is impossible, nothing works anymore,” he said.
“This was not only done to us by Tony Blair and the Labor Party, but most of all by the Conservative Party, who lied so thoroughly at every general election. Our job now is to replace them as Britain's opposition party.'' That's politics and that's what we're going to do,'' Mr Farage vowed.
