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Reform UK on Track for Minority Government as Farage Enlists Business Leaders and Seeks Tory Defections

A recent Financial Times poll projects Reform UK will win 271 seats, prompting secret London club meetings on alliances, defections.

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BERVERLEY, ENGLAND - APRIL 25: Leader of the Reform Party Nigel Farage meets and speaks with the public while on a walkabout on April 25, 2025 in Beverley, England. Luke Campbell is the Reform Party Candidate for Mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, being contested on May 1st, 2025. (Photo by Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images)
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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.