By GB News (Politics) | Created at 2025-01-23 11:59:16 | Updated at 2025-01-23 16:59:58
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Britons say Nigel Farage would be the 'best prime minister' in a humiliating blow to Sir Keir Starmer.
With Kemi Badenoch trailing in third place, YouGov’s voting intention poll sends the clearest signal yet that voters are disaffected with the two main parties.
YouGov’s voting intention poll, conducted for the first time since Starmer swept to power in July, asked: Which of the following do you think would make the best Prime Minister?
Nigel Farage topped the leaderboard with 20 per cent of respondents plumping for the Reform leader, with Starmer followed closely behind at 19 per cent.
Reform UK has bagged a major win as Nigel Farage has been voted best prime minister
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Badenoch and Lib Dem leader Ed Davey tussled for third place, garnering nine and eight per cent of the vote respectively.
In a further blow to Starmer, just half of 2024 Labour voters (50 per cent) say he would make the best prime minister from the list of four, although few (two to eight per cent) opt for an alternative, with most of the rest (34 per cent) answering “don’t know”.
Farage, by contrast, has the overwhelming support of his own voters, with 81 per cent backing him for best PM. Again, few (nought to three per cent) prefer one of the other offerings, with the rest (15 per cent) unsure.
The bad news for Starmer comes as he faces serious questions over the grooming gangs scandal and attempts to revive a sluggish economy.
Even if he manages to restore public confidence in the former, the latter will be a much more formidable challenge as Chancellor Reeves looks set to break her own fiscal rules amid rising borrowing costs and global volatility.
All this should be an open goal for the Conservatives but they are still trying to find their feet under Badenoch.
Farage's message to voters, meanwhile, appears to be cutting through with voters, polling consistently suggests.
He looks set to benefit further from the political winds across the Atlantic.
Farage looks set to benefit further from the political winds across the Atlantic
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Farage said as much in a speech at his pre-inauguration party for the incoming president in Washington DC on Sunday, telling Republicans that he believes he will win the next election.
Farage called Trump’s 2024 victory the start of a “political tide that is going to sweep across the Western world”, adding that Americans were “lucky” to have the 45th President return to the Oval Office for another term.
The Clacton MP, who joined a number of attendees at the party hosted by Brexit-backing businessman Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore, said: “I honestly believe that what you’ve seen here is going to be a political tide that is going to sweep across the Western world.
“There’s much else happening across Europe too, including in the set of islands that I come from, where there is a new insurgent political party led by a maverick from the outside.
“And who knows? I actually do believe that we will win the next General Election. I do believe I can become the next Prime Minister.
“I just hope it happens quickly while Donald Trump is still in office.”
