A new poll has suggested more than two-thirds of voters in Labour's Red Wall believe Britain is broken.
Survation polled 2,032 adults online aged over 18 living in the East Midlands, West Midlands, North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, finding that 68 per cent of people polled thought Britain was "broken."
Reform’s support since the General Election last year has risen from 18 to 30 per cent, with Labour’s vote share falling from 39 to 27 per cent, reports The Sun.
The poll was also worrying news for Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives, as just 26 per cent see them as the biggest electoral threat to Labour, compared to 44 per cent for Reform UK.
Farage's party is poised to make huge gains in Labour's Red Wall shake up as 68% say 'Britain is broken'
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In all the areas across the North and Midlands having local elections, Reform would get 27 per cent, ahead of Labour on 26 and the Tories on 21.
Meanwhile, voting intentions for areas where elections are going ahead in May, Reform’s share rises to 29 per cent, Labour’s falls to 20 with the Tories on 24.
Around 53 per cent of people said the cost of living is the most important issue for deciding how they will vote next month, with immigration on 35 per cent and health on 32 per cent.
A Reform source told The Sun: "Labour have abandoned working people to become a party of middle class, North London lawyers who have completely lost touch of working people and their own heartlands."
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at the Newton Aycliffe working men's club in Durham
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It comes as Farage appeared to blame what he called "net zero lunacy" for Britain having to ship supplies for British Steel from abroad.
The Reform UK leader told a rally in County Durham: "I don’t believe there would have been a Saturday sitting in Parliament if Richard Tice and I had not been up to Scunthorpe and been greeted the way we were by those workers, especially in the local ‘Spoons afterwards, they actually felt there was someone speaking up for them.“
"They actually felt there was somebody on their side, and that, I think, is why Labour did what they did. Where we go from here? I don’t know. Although what a bizarre situation we’ve got… where we’re not quite sure where the coal is.
"You know, the coal that we could have manufactured ourselves and mined in Whitehaven in Cumbria, but, oh no, no, we can’t do that. That’ll be no good for our carbon dioxide emissions.
"We’ve actually imported some of it all the way from Japan, and now the coal hunt is on."
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to meet British Steel workers in Appleby Village Hall near Scunthorpe
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It comes as Labour is reportedly facing a split between "town" and "city" Labour MPs over welfare cuts.
One MP in a traditionally safe urban seat for Sir Keir Starmer's party said they were "incandescent" with the proposals, adding: "This was not what I expected. We can’t just be slightly better than the Tories."
Professor at Oxford University in charge of the British Election Study Jane Green told Politico that Labour going after votes on the right carries its own risks.
She said: "Can they even win over Reform?...There is a danger they’re likely to misunderstand that voter anyway and fall into stereotypes, which happens an awful lot."
