Reform UK surpasses the Conservative Party of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a survey published this Thursday. The elections will be on July 4.
Alert in the UK government. For the first time, the extreme right of Reform UK overtakes the British Prime Minister’s Conservative Party, Rishi Sunak, in a survey published this Thursday. First, far away, appears the Labor Party.
According to a study conducted by the YouGov institute based on interviews with 2,211 people, Reform UK has a voting intention of 19%, one more than from the ruling Conservative Party. Meanwhile, the Labor Party leads comfortably with 37% of voting intention.
“We are now the opposition to Labour,” celebrated Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. at the start of a television debate Thursday night. While it is still unclear whether this will be a trend, the mere fact that this far-right party is fighting neck and neck for second place is “a seismic shift in the electoral landscape,” YouGov said.
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On May 22, the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak announced that he has asked King Juan Carlos III to dissolve Parliament on May 30 to call general elections, which will be held on July 4.
If this trend continues in the polls, there are doubts that the Conservative Party can retain the government it has held for 14 years.
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The elections were to be scheduled before the end of January 2025 and Rishi Sunak had until now limited himself to talking about elections “in the second half” of the year. The disastrous poll numbers for the Toriesincreased pressure on the head of the government to call voters to the polls.
A series of good news on an economic level, such as a stopping inflation or taking steps to implement the immigrant expulsion plan irregulars to Rwanda would have ended up convincing Sunak to take the step. After 14 years of Conservative power marked by the Brexit referendum and then the succession of five prime ministers in eight years, the British They seem determined to turn the page and send to Labor’s Keir Starmer, a 61-year-old former lawyer, to 10 Downing Street.
Polls give Laborlocated in the center left, around 45% of voting intentionsfar ahead of the conservatives, relegated to among 20% and 25%, and from the anti-immigration and anti-climactic Reform UK party (12%).
With a system of simple absolute majority vote in each of the 650 UK constituenciessuch results would translate into a large majority for Labor.
Source: Ambito
