SHOCK poll: Reform biggest party in East Midlands, East England and Wales as Labour support crumbles

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The respected pollsters also found Reform to be polling 22 per cent nationally, just three percentage points behind Labour on 25. The Conservatives had a two-point lead on Labour at 27 per cent.

While Kemi Badenoch's party had only gained two points since the election, Labour plummeted 10 per cent as voters deserted Starmer over several unpopular decisions.

FindOutNow said: “Reform have seen the largest gain, increasing their 2024 GE support by almost 50 per cent. This is driven equally by former Conservatives and those who didn’t vote at the last election.”

Their research highlighted the disillusion many voters are feeling towards the two mainstream parties, reporting: “The combined vote share of Labour and the Conservatives is only 52 per cent.

“This would be the lowest combined vote share for the two major parties in British history.”

The poll was based on 2,300 respondents weighted to be nationally representative of age, gender, region and General Election 2024 vote.

A Reform UK Spokesman said: "This polling confirms what we all know, Reform UK has all the momentum in British politics.

"We have now surpassed 100,000 members and our polling continues to rise. Voters recognise that the Tories and Labour have failed them and that Britain needs Reform.

"We will harness this momentum as we head into next May and offer voters real change."

This comes as Labour lost another council seat last night bringing their total to 23 seatslost since the General Election.

Starmer’s party lost Woodhouse (Sheffield) to a 19-year-old university student from the Liberal Democrats as their vote share slumped a whopping 36.8 per cent.

The teenager won the seat with 33 per cent of the vote, beating Reform into second by 0.3 per cent- 10 votes.

By-elections historically do not go the way of the incumbent government as the electorate sees it as a chance to punish their leaders for whatever unpopular decisions have recently been taken.

It is also worth noting polls are not predictions of the future but a recording of a snapshot of public opinion on one particular day.

However, this is not the first poll that has found Reform closing in on Labour and the Conservatives. Several other national polls have put the populist party between 18 and 22 per cent nationally.