Nigel Farage faces election nightmare as Labour voters set to make drastic move | Politics | News
Millions of Labor voters are preparing to abandon their party and back the Greens or Liberal Democrats to prevent Nigel Farage’s UK Reform Party from coming to power. YouGov research suggests up to 77 per cent of Labor voters will vote tactically to prevent Reform from winning in their seat.
Almost as many (up to 69%) will vote Liberal Democrats or Greens to prevent the Conservatives from winning their constituency. YouGov found Labor supporters were the “most enthusiastic tactical voters”. The research highlights the challenges facing Reformation as the party tries to secure a majority at the next Westminster election.
Politico’s poll this week shows Reform on 28 per cent of the vote, with Labor and the Conservatives on 18 per cent, ahead of the Greens (14 per cent) and the Liberal Democrats (13 per cent).
YouGov research suggests Kemi Badenoch will fight to get Labor supporters to support the Conservatives in seats where her party is in competition with Reform.
The researchers found: “Very few Labor voters would support a Right-wing party in any case, but only if Conservatives or Reform had a chance of winning their UK seat would 30% be willing to support the Conservatives. This is against 35% who said they would remain loyal to Labour, and 17% who said they would abstain.”
Nearly six in 10 Green supporters (57%) will vote for Sir Keir’s party in the battle between Labor and Reform UK. In a seat where the election is between that party and the Conservatives, only 44% would back Labor.
It’s almost the same story with the Liberal Democrats. While 58 per cent would back Labor to block Reform, only 43 per cent would vote for Sir Keir’s party to deny seats to the Conservatives.
The poll shows that only in seats where the Conservatives or Reform UK have a chance of winning will voters support the Conservatives by 31% to 24%.
Up to 45 per cent of Reform voters support the Conservatives stopping Labour, the Liberal Democrats or the Greens.
A Reform spokesman encouraged the party’s supporters to vote for it and reject the Conservatives, saying: “There’s only one way to fix broken Britain, and that’s to vote for a Reform UK.
“The Conservatives had their chance and after 14 years of disastrous failure no seat is safe for them now.
“Last year’s elections clearly showed that if you vote for Reform, you get Reform.”
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41 per cent of Conservative supporters are prepared to back Reform to keep Labor or the Liberal Democrats out, while 32 per cent would do so to prevent the Greens from taking the seat.
When all voters were asked which party they would support in the fight against Labor on Reform, 35 per cent preferred Sir Keir’s party and 31 per cent preferred Mr Farage’s party.
When asked which party they would support in the Reform and Conservative contest, 31 per cent of respondents said they would support Ms Badenoch’s party and 24 per cent said they would support the new party.
The seats where voters will be faced with choosing between the Conservative Party and Labor are expected to be “a small number in current polls”. YouGov says these constituencies are on a “knife edge”, with 29 per cent supporting Labor and 28 per cent supporting the Conservative Party.
