Would voters back a Tory-Reform pact?

While rumours continue to swirl about whether the Conservatives will strike a deal with Reform UK, exclusive polling shared with the Spectator suggests that voters aren’t all that convinced by the aligning of the Tories with Nigel Farage’s party. In fact, it appears that almost six in ten Brits believe the Tories and Labour are similar to each other – with two thirds of Reform supporters seeing little difference between the UK’s two main parties. How very curious…

The data from Merlin Strategy, collected from 2,300 adults on 9 May, backs up concerns that voters are turning away from the UK’s long-established political parties – with just under 70 per cent of Brits say that both Keir Starmer’s Labour lot and Kemi Badenoch’s boys in blue are too similar and have failed the country, leaving the public with no real choice when they go to the polls. It benefits Nigel Farage’s Reform party, which four in ten British adults approve of, compared to Starmer’s army – which has the approval of little more than a quarter of Brits.