NIGEL Farage has claimed Reform is at a “tipping point” as a new poll shows that the Tories are losing one in five voters to his party.
The Reform UK leader said that he is now the main challenger to Labour amid the fallout from Rishi Sunak’s disastrous D-Day blunder.
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Former UKIP boss Farage’s party is currently up three points to 15 per cent in the polls, according to the latest data from J.L Partners.
Speaking at an event to launch Reform’s economic plan, Farage said: “If you take out London and you take out Scotland you get a very interesting picture.
“We are ahead of the Conservatives in the north east right now. We are ahead of the Conservatives in the north west right now. We are ahead of the Conservatives in Yorkshire and Humber right now.
“We are ahead of the Conservatives in the east midlands right now. We are ahead of the Conservatives in the west midlands right now.
“We are ahead of the Conservatives in terms of male voters and we are ahead of the conservatives in terms of Brexit voters.”
He added: “In significant parts of the country we are now the challenger to Labour.”
“My word of the day is momentum. We have got momentum. I have absolutely no doubt about it. Whether it is walking through streets in Essex yesterday or even walking through the streets of central London today.
“Millions of people yesterday, whether at their family breakfasts or wherever else they went on their Sundays, were having a conversation about Reform.”
A voting intention poll by J.L. Partners for The Rest is Politics released today shows that Labour still has a 17 point lead – but Reform is taking votes from the Conservatives.
Pollsters say that voters feel “disappointed” “angry” and “disgusted” by the PM’s D-Day gaff.
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The Tories could still lose even more support to Reform with three in ten Conservative voters open to considering voting for Farage’s party.
Tom Lubbock, Co-Founder of J.L. Partners, said: “There were three huge events last week – the debate, Farage and D-Day. All have put their own mark on this race for No. 10, but Nigel Farage‘s entry has had the largest impact.
“The news of the former UKIP leader’s return has brought new voters over to Reform from both Labour and Conservatives.
“The blunder that Rishi Sunak made in leaving France early has further tainted views of him, but the effect has been more muted than coverage would suggest because he is at the lower bound for a Conservative on so many brand metrics.”
Reform UK’s chairman Richard Tice has announced that his party would increase the threshold of income tax to £20,000.
He claims the change would benefit the average person by about £1,500 a year.
Farage called the policy a step in the right direction, adding: “We need to face up to one or two realities. We are skint. And it is getting worse. And at some point in time we may even have trouble issuing gilts, issuing government bonds unless the market sees that we have got some solutions.
“And that is why the only way out is growth and I think what Richard has just set out, in particular putting up the tax threshold to £20,000 would be a very, very big step in the right direction.”
Tice and Farage dubbed the policy “the great British tax cut” at an event in Westminster this afternoon.