Reform UK On The Up.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is now seen more favourably than Labour Credit: Peter Nicholls

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Politics latest news: Voters now more positive about Reform than Labour Voters now feel more positively about Reform UK than they do about Labour, new polling shows.

Voters now feel more positively about Reform UK than they do about Labour, new polling shows.

A poll of 2,000 adults by JL Partners found 28 per cent of voters have a very or quite positive view of Nigel Farage’s party, compared to 27 per cent who feel the same way about Labour.

Forty-one per cent have a very or quite negative opinion of Reform, compared to 47 per cent who feel very or quite negatively about Labour.

The JL Partners polling found Labour are polling at 29 per cent, ahead of the Conservatives on 25 per cent and Reform UK on 19 per cent.

Labour is now winning just over one in 10 voters aged 65 or over having previously won more than a quarter of this age group amid its winter fuel allowance raid. DT.