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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at a press conference in Dover in Kent, whilst on the local election campaign trail, April 24, 2025

ELECTORAL opinion polls indicate that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could make significant gains in elections taking place on May 1. 

Several general election voting intention polls place Reform in the lead, which if replicated in a general election could put Farage in No 10 in coalition with the Conservative Party. 

For the first time in British history, a party to the right of the Tories could take power.

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