Reform UK has topped a YouGov voting intention poll for the first time. Nigel Farage’s right-wing party has beaten the Labour Party to take the lead for the first time in the poll published on Monday.

Reform UK has taken the lead in a British opinion poll for the first time, in a move that will alarm Labour and the Conservatives ahead of local elections in May. Public support for Reform UK, the rightwing populist party led by Nigel Farage, was up 2 percentage points to 25 per cent, according to the YouGov survey.

Britain's right-wing Reform UK party has taken the lead for the first time in a new opinion poll by YouGov, according to a Sky News reporter's social media post on Monday. A graphic of the YouGov polling posted by the reporter on social media showed if a general election were held tomorrow 25% of British voters would choose Reform and 24% would vote Labour,

Starmer’s party drops to 24 per cent of the vote, with Conservatives at 21 per cent