Overview

• Nigel Farage leads Keir Starmer 31% to 26% on the best prime minister question in the Opinium poll.
• Half of voters said Labour had a bad conference, and a third viewed Starmer’s speech negatively with 23% positive.
• Reform rose two points to a record 34% with the firm as Labour slipped one point to 21%.
• Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats made Farage and Reform a centerpiece of their conferences, a strategy critics say amplified Reform’s visibility.
• Starmer labeled Reform’s deportation plans “racist,” drawing internal concern from figures including Sadiq Khan about the language used.