Reform UK has overtaken the Tories for the first time in a new YouGov poll carried out for The Times newspaper. Nigel Farage has seized on the survey to declare his party 'the opposition to Labour'.
By Tamara Cohen, political correspondent, in PugliaRishi Sunak has responded to a poll showing Nigel Farage's Reform party ahead of the Conservatives, saying a vote for the party would 'give a blank cheque to Labour'.Speaking to journalists at the G7 summit in Italy, he said: 'We are only halfway through this election, so I'm still fighting very hard for every vote.
The prime minister said voters on the doorstep 'do understand that a vote for anyone who is not a Conservative candidate is just a vote to put Keir Starmer in No 10'.He attacked Labour's economic plans, saying taxes would have to rise, and said they would not control the borders or legal migration.
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