Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Nigel Farage's Reform Party leading in a UK poll for the first time

Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK Party overtook the Labour Party to become the country's most popular political party in a new YouGov poll.

The poll showed that if an election were held tomorrow, 25 percent of British voters would pick Reform, 24 percent would choose Labour and 21 percent would pick the Conservative Party.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says this will give Farage a boost ahead of the next election - as he fully intends to run for Prime Minister.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now though we're going to the UK in the
Brady is a UK correspondent in the Good Evening.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hello, Ryan, lovely to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Great to speak to you now. Nigel Farage and his
crew the Reform Party, they have managed to top a
national poll for the first time.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
They have and this is very very significant because they're
not really up and running that long. They've only got
five MPs. It's basically Forage and four other blokes. They're
all middle aged men mostly, and you know they're new
on the scene and they have really really set the
cat amongst the pigeons here this morning. So up until now,
Reformers seen as a threat to the Conservatives. It's a

(00:40):
right leaning party, they have right wing policies and the
feeling politically was that the people they would be taking
votes from would be the Conservatives. And now nationwide they're
one percentage point clear of Keir Starmer's Labor, so Reformer currently,
if this poll is to be believed, on twenty five percent,
Labor are on twenty four and the Conservatives have collapsed

(01:01):
to twenty one percent. So Foraj has a spring in
his step. He has already made it quite clear that
in four years time he wants to be strong enough
to run for prime minister. So they've certainly got the money,
They've got the publicity they always get in the newspapers
and on radio, on TV. But I think what they
need to do now is start finding candidates. You know,

(01:24):
they need to be in a position where they will
have not just dozens of people in constituency one hundreds
nationwide if they're to be serious. But right now I
would imagine Keir Starmer is very concerned because clearly this
is an indictment on his first seven or eight months
in office and his policies.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Two questions is the pole le jit and could we
see Conservatives start to change their allegiances.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
The poll certainly is being taken seriously. All the major
news outlets are carrying it, so it is legit. But look,
we're four years out from another election, so polls come
and go. Let's let's see how people feel in four
years time Conservatives. I think people will start leaning towards
Forage because there's no great love for this new Conservative

(02:12):
leader Kenny Badenok. She's taking her time to bed in
and make her points, and I'm just not sure she
will be around him four years time. Forage is adamant,
he will be, but it's I think the problem today
is for keer Stammer that if these reform figures are
to be believed, he's eating into labor heartlands support in

(02:33):
the North of England, which and then particularly amongst the
working class. Labor has always prided itself on being a
party of the working class. And Forage privately educated former
hedge fund manager and stockbroker, you know Forage, and yet
he's able to punch through and talk to working class people.
It's fascinating what's going on.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Sam Kerr, the Jussie footballer, expected to give evidence later today.
What's happening in court?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
So this will be a big day for Sam Kerr
in this trial. It's scheduled to last four days. Today's
day two and she will be giving evidence in her
defense now. The trial got underway yesterday Kingston, the Pontames
Crown Court. It goes back two years end of January.
Two years ago, she was on a night out with
her partner who plays soccer for the United States. Alcohol

(03:22):
was consumed and there was an incident in a taxi
where the taxi driver claimed his window had been damaged
He then rang the police and the police said, okay,
don't drop them to their address, come to the police station.
And at that point step forward PC Stephen Lovell. He
said in court that he witnessed car crawling through the

(03:42):
rear window, getting out with the taxi via the rear
window which was broken. He takes her into the police station.
All of this is on body cam. About thirty minutes
of body camera footage was shown to the court. Now,
the criminal damage arrest was sorted out on site because
she agreed to pay for the damage to the window,
the taxi driver claiming that she had actually shown him

(04:04):
her bank balance to prove that she had enough money,
and the taxi driver claiming that he felt this was
done to belittle him, the police officer saying that someone
like him would never have seen that much money in
his life. So whatever has gone on, she stands account
of racially aggravated harassment of a police officer because what
she said to Pc Lavelle was that he was quote,

(04:25):
I won't use the square word stupid and white, and
she said that three times on the body cam footage
that was played the court.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Not great luck is that the Princess Wales has Speaking
of great looks though, Princess of Wales has released a new.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Picture Yes since her in a forest looking radiant, sunshine
coming down and she has released this to mark World
Cancer Day and a lovely twist. The picture was taken
by her son, Prince Louis, everyone's favorite little royal, real
character and he certainly has his mother's talent for taking

(05:00):
pictures because we know she's an accomplished amateur photographer. And
there is nothing wrong with what Louis has taken off
his mum. It's in all of the pic the newspapers
today this picture, so good on him and good on
her and I think, you know, we're seeing the new
generation of royals and how they communicate, and you just
think even ten to fifteen years ago they were not

(05:20):
doing anything like this. Kate really driving the agenda here in.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
The Thank you so much for that in the Brady
are UK correspondent with us from London.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
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