Overview
- A Financial Times poll suggests Reform UK would secure 271 MPs, leapfrogging Labour and the Conservatives in projected seats.
- Nigel Farage has privately pledged to appoint leading business executives to cabinet roles through peerages if his party enters government.
- Covert meetings at exclusive London private members’ clubs have brought together senior Reform UK and Conservative figures to discuss potential pacts and defections.
- Targeting Leave-voting outer London boroughs such as Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Bexley, Hillingdon and Sutton, Reform UK aims to convert national support into parliamentary gains.
- Farage has distanced his party from extremist personalities while advancing nationalist-populist policies on benefits, immigration and cultural issues.