As Reform storm ahead in national polling, Nigel Farage has issued a damning 12-word remark about Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative Party.
A YouGov poll for The Times and Sky News found Reform had increased their standing by one percentage point since May 11th and 12th to 29%.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives sunk to fourth place for the first time since 2019, sitting on just 16% of the national vote.
That represented a decline of two percentage points in the previous week, and means Badenoch’s party is now behind the Liberal Democrats in the polls.
Sir Ed Davey’s party were sitting on 17%, behind Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour on 22%.
After a slew of local election successes earlier this month, Nigel Farage was happy with Reform’s numbers and issued some strong words on Conservative rivals.
In a tweet on Tuesday after the poll results were published, he had just 12 words for Badenoch and the Conservatives.
Farage said: “The Tories are now 4th place in the polls and sinking fast.”
According to Election Maps UK, if a general election produced the results contained in the poll from Tuesday morning, Reform would be the largest party on 309 seats, 17 seats short of an overall majority.
Meanwhile, Labour would lose 273 seats compared to their current standings, falling to just 138 seats in the House of Commons.
The Tories, though, would be in an even worse position, projected to fall behind the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party in terms of seat numbers.
Badenoch’s party would be on course to win just 21 seats based on the poll’s vote share calculations, a further loss of 100 seats from last year’s record-breaking defeat under Rishi Sunak.
Pollster Luke Tryl said the country’s political landscape had been upended and that the Conservatives risked “going the way of the republicans in France and “need a strategy” to claim back their loss in support.
