Labour has been dealt with a crushing blow as new polling has put Sir Keir Starmer’s party on its lowest ever result as Reform UK rose to the top.

Polling from FindOutNowUK taken between September 17 and 18 had Nigel Farage’s party on 34 per cent, with the Conservatives and Labour in joint second on 16 per cent.

In fourth are the Liberal Democrats on 13 per cent, with the Green Party just behind on 12 per cent.

Using the Electoral Calculus prediction, the numbers give Reform UK a majority of 264, with the Liberal Democrats becoming the official opposition on 52 seats, with Labour on 44.

Among the Labour and Conservative bigwigs who would lose their seats to Reform include Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick.

Ashfield MP Lee Anderson said: “No seat is safe from the People’s Army. Reform UK are coming for the two main parties.”

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Flag campaigns show Britons are ‘not embarrassed about being British’, says crossbench peer

People are attaching the St George’s and Union flags to lamp posts to “express solidarity with each other” and show they are not “embarrassed about being British”, a leading peer has said.

Baroness Fox of Buckley also criticised what she described as “a kind of form of snobbery that’s basically anti working class” among the UK’s ruling class towards ordinary Britons.

And this in turn led to an inability of the Establishment to comprehend why Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is so popular among voters.

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