The latest YouGov Westminster opinion poll with the Times has the four top parties within seven points of each other:
- RFM 24% (-3)
- LAB 19% (=)
- CON 18% (=)
- GRN 17% (+1)
- LDEM 13% (-1)
The Greens are maintaining a consistent lead over the LibDems and sit comfortably one/two points behind the Tories and Labour. Reform has dipped again after recovering from another slump three weeks ago…
In a separate just-released poll by JL Partners for the Sun, Reform is at its highest level of support since September:
Bodes for an explosive set of local elections…
In Henry Mance’s piece today for the FT, lunching with Nigel Farage:
“Splendido!” Farage says, when the drinks arrive; I suppose it’s a step to European reconciliation. We clink glasses, and he lights the first of two back-to-back Benson & Hedges. A few minutes later, we’re back downstairs. “Are you drinking? Good.” He orders a glass of Sauvignon blanc for each of us — not a bottle, “because it’s Lent” — followed by a bottle of claret, to have with our meal. They say Farage drinks less than he used to. They say a lot of things.”
