Nigel Farage could topple Sir Keir Starmer, concerned Labour backbenchers have admitted. The Reform UK leader commands a quarter of the public’s support, ahead of Labour on 24% and the Tories on 21%. His party topped YouGov’s voter intention poll for the first time on Monday.

The same survey indicated a 3 percentage point swing towards Reform UK from both Labour and the Tories which could result in it securing 169 seats. The YouGov poll suggested Farag

Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK party overtook Britain's governing Labour Party to become the country's most popular political party in a new poll, reflecting public discontent in Prime Minister Keir Starmer less than seven months into his term.

Labour’s approach to knife crime is “totemic” of its wider weaknesses on law and order, a scathing report has concluded. Policy Exchange warned that Sir Keir Starmer ’s party ignores enforcement in favour of “their comfort zone of prevention and rehabilitation”.