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Huge blow to Labour as Reform and Tories joint top in latest poll .hh

Reform and Tories ahead of Labour six months after Sir Keir Starmer entered No 10.

Nigel Farage, Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch

Nigel Farage, Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch (Image: Getty)

Reform UK and the Conservatives are tied in first place in new polling.

The latest survey by Find Out Now puts the two Right-wing parties on 25% each.

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is down one point from last week to 24%.

There has been no change for Nigel Farage’s party from the previous poll, when it was tied with Labour at 25%.

But Kemi Badenoch’s party has been boosted by five points, up from 20%.

The Liberal Democrats are on 12% while the Greens are on 10% in the survey of 2,386 British adults carried out on Wednesday.

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Reform and the Tories are both on 25%, with Labour on 24% (Image: Find Out Now)

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It comes amid ongoing calls for Reform and the Tories to join forces in order to beat Labour at the next election.

But the prospect of an election pact has been ruled out by both Mr Farage and Mrs Badenoch.

Speaking after a speech in central London on Thursday, the Tory leader said: “Nigel Farage says he wants to destroy the Conservative Party. Why on earth would we merge with that?”

She added: “Nigel Farage has been knocking around for 20-plus years. He’s been leading all sorts of different parties, so he has had a head start.

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“I’ve been leading the Conservative Party for 10 weeks. Let’s see where we are in a few months and years.”

On Wednesday, Mr Farage insisted he did not trust the Tories after pulling out Brexit Party candidates at the 2019 election.

The Reform leader told LBC: “Back in 2019 we’d won the European elections as the Brexit Party, we’d got rid of Mrs May, we’d opened the door for Boris Johnson.

“And as an act of goodwill to really get Brexit over the line, I withdrew candidates from 320 seats which contributed significantly to Boris’s 80-seat majority.

“I did it because I believed it was the right thing for the country to do to end this constant battle to actually get Brexit over the line.

“What was I rewarded with? I was rewarded by a party that had promised again and again to reduce net migration to tens of thousands a year, who in 2023 gave us net migration of one million.

“I was rewarded by every industry, from fishing to financial services, not deregulating, not getting rid of EU rules, which for many people was one of the reasons for voting Brexit.

“And frankly, I feel pretty let down by them as well. So really, the question you’re asking me is, would I trust them? And the answer is, no.”

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