NIGEL Farage would make sweeping gains taking an extra 67 seats from Labour if an election were held today, a new poll shows.
The Reform Party would take their tally to 72 seats with Sir Keir Starmer losing his majority – and nearly 200 seats in an electoral bloodbath.
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The mega-poll would put Reform as the third biggest party in the House of Commons and cause shockwaves in Westminster.
Labour would also shed some 87 seats to the Conservatives and 26 to the Scottish National Party, the analysis reveals.
Around 11,000 people took part in the poll which was conducted by think tank More in Common.
It’s the first seat-by-seat analysis carried out since Labour won a stonking majority at the election in July.
Labour would be reduced to 228 seats but would still be the biggest party and the Conservatives would be sat on 222 seats.
But the losses for Labour would likely see several Cabinet big hitters losing their seats to Nigel Farage’s outfit.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper would lose their seats to Reform.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting would lose out to an independent candidate in his Ilford North constituency.
The poll isn’t a prediction of where voters would turn to at a general election but how they would currently vote.
It would also suggest a fragmentation of UK politics similar to what is happening in France and Germany where one party has struggled to win a majority.
Nigel Farage was also celebrating today after 150,000 people had signed up to Reform – with 50,000 joining this month.
Luke Tryl, boss of More in Common UK, said: “With potentially four and a half years to go, this model is not a prediction of what would happen at the next general election.
“Instead it confirms the fragmentation of British politics that we saw in July’s election has only accelerated in Labour’s six months in office.”
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