Nigel Farage’s party have a seven-point lead in a new poll, with the Tories falling behind the Liberal Democrats.
Nigel Farage has received a huge boost this morning as a shock new poll puts the party firmly on top in the race for power.
Reform UK has a seven-point lead on 29%, according to the YouGov poll for Sky News and The Times.
But Kemi Badenoch suffered a huge blow after new analysis suggested the Lib Dems are more popular than the Conservatives.
Just 16% of voters said they would back the Tories in a ballot.
This is compared to 17% for the Liberal Democrats.
Support for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party dropped to 22%.
Nigel Farage’s Reform has a seven point lead (Image: Getty)
The latest poll will be a huge blow to the Conservatives (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer acknowledged the threat of Reform when he addressed MPs last night.
He said: “The Conservatives are not our principal opponent. Reform are our main rivals for power. We have a moral responsibility to make sure Farage never wins.
“We have to be clear that every opportunity he has had in this Parliament to back working people he’s voted against. Telling the workers at Jaguar Land Rover they deserve to go bust.
“A state-slashing, NHS-privatising, Putin apologist. Without a single patriotic bone in his body. We will take to fight to him. We will fight as Labour.”
Mrs Badenoch declared: “My job is to pick all the pieces of the party and rebuild but because the public have just rejected us from government, they’re not rushing back immediately, instead, they’re looking at protest parties and challenger parties.”
“And what we need to do now is remind people that we are the only credible alternative to a Labour government. We are the serious party. We have the experience. Acknowledge that we made a lot of mistakes in government.”
The latest bombshell poll comes after the Tories suffered a devastating drubbing in the local elections.
Conservatives lost 674 council seats in this month’s local elections, more than two thirds of the seats they were defending, and lost control of previously “true blue” councils such as Staffordshire and Kent.
But the Tory leader has urged voters not to write her party off.
She argued her party needs to “redefine” what modern conservatism looks like, styling herself as an “insurgent’ and an “underdog”.
She said: “We need to redefine what modern conservatism looks like in this landscape. I’m the new kid on the block. I’m the insurgent now. I’m the underdog, and I need to remind people that the Conservative Party which disappointed them is not me, and we are the ones who are the ones who can channel the anger and the frustration.
“Why is it that roads are full of potholes? Why is it that things just don’t look like they’re working? Why is it that they don’t have enough money anymore? Where’s the disposable income gone? Why are we wasting it on all sorts of things that the government has no business whatsoever getting involved in?”
Labour has utilised global summits and trade deals to present Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer as a statesman after his party was hammered in northern England and the Midlands.
But the Prime Minister’s EU deal is likely to provoke a new wave of anger.
Former Labour MP Baroness Hoey admitted the government has “lost touch with ordinary people” and predicted further by-election wins for rival parties.
Speaking on GB News, Baroness Kate Hoey said: “Keir Starmer, as a prime minister, we know he’s had the worst polling records ever in such a short time, and I know that there’s talk about him going to go back on certain issues like the winter fuel payments.
“But I think the public now has really wakened up to the fact that many of them regretting very much that they voted Labour and realizing that Keir Starmer seems to be now, in my view, more in support and wanting to be close to the European Union than actually thinking about British people.
“You have to remember he has been a Remainer, a Europhile, for many, many years, and he was the person who led as the Labour shadow Europe minister, those awful three years when we had to keep fighting to just get Brexit over the line.”
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