Farage’s Reform Party Takes Strong Lead Among Low-Income Voters.

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PULSE POINTS:

What Happened: New polling shows Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is the most popular political party among voters with a household income of up to £20,000 (~$25,200).

👥 Who’s Involved: Opinium Research, Nigel Farage, working-class voters.

📍 Where & When: The United Kingdom, polling carried out on March 26.

💬 Key Quote: “Momentum is with the Reform leader, who confounds established opinion more often than he confirms it,” says Kamal Ahmed, former Editorial Director of BBC News.

⚠ Impact: Reform’s rise in the polls suggests Farage has a real chance of becoming Prime Minister at the next British parliamentary election, which must be held by 2029.

IN FULL:

Opinium Research has Nigel Farage’s Reform Party topping its polling among lower-income voters, with support at 34 percent among those with a household income of up to £20,000 (~$25,200) a year. This puts them far ahead of the formerly governing Conservatives, at 19 percent, and the governing Labour Party, at just 17 percent.

Labour—founded to represent the interests of working-class laborers in 1900—now finds its strongest supporters among voters with a household income over £80,001 (~$100,800), at 39 percent, far ahead of the Conservatives who are traditionally associated with “the rich,” at 22 percent, and Reform, on 21 percent.

This phenomenon is mirrored in the United States, where President Donald J. Trump, a billionaire real estate tycoon, polled his most substantial support among America’s hardest workers. At the same time, the Democrats, who pose as the party of the downtrodden, were the top choice of “the elite one percent” by a significant margin.

Overall, Reform tied Labour among all voters at 26 percent—with a small but statistically insignificant edge over the governing party—with the Conservatives at 22 percent. Farage’s party has consistently tied or led the two major parties for months now, with Kamal Ahmed, former Editorial Director of BBC News, writing in The Telegraph, “Momentum is with the Reform leader, who confounds established opinion more often than he confirms it.”

Farage’s personal approval rating is the highest of any party leader, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer having the worst disapproval rating, at 56 percent. The National Pulse has previously reported that, on the question of who would make the better national leader, Farage leads the Labour leader in 335 constituencies (electoral districts), while the incumbent edges his populist rival in 291.

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