Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the new poll saying Nigel Farage's Reform Party would win in general election

New data shows Nigel Farage and the Reform Party would win more seats than Labour and the Conservatives in the next general election.

Political analysts have revealed that Farage and Reform would win 278 seats if a general election were to take place tomorrow - the most of any party. 

UK correspondent Enda Brady says the next election is four years away - but Prime Minister Starmer's team should be taking this data into account going forward. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondence with us.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Now, Hey Inda, hey Heather, good to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Do we believe this poll?

Speaker 3 (00:07):
So this poll is putting Nigel Faraji in Downing Street
as Prime Minister. In four years time, it would be
a hung parliament. What I think is really shocking for
Keir Starmer and indeed the leader of the Conservative Party,
Kenmy Badenoch, is just the extent to which their political
support at constituency level across the UK has fallen away

(00:28):
in a very short space of time. So Reform UK
currently have five members of Parliament. This poll says if
there was an election this week, Reform will be on
two seven eight. That's how many seats they would win,
two hundred and seventy eight. Labor would fall away to
one hundred and seventy one and the Conservatives would drop

(00:49):
down to forty six seats. They would be basically a
minor political party. Now, if you add Labor and Conservatives together,
they still wouldn't have as many seats as Reform. It's
a long way out from the next election four years out.
But I think as we approach Keir Starmer's first anniversary

(01:10):
and power next week, he needs to start sitting down
with his people and working out how to tackle reform
because they are running away with it in the polls.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, okay, So I mean this could just be a
I don't know, like a protest vote, a protest poll result.
Does it actually a people actually who are saying to
the posters right now that they would vote for reform?
Will they actually walk into a bellot booth and vote
for reform in these numbers?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
All I can say anecdotally from people I've spoken to
a summer barbecues and various different social events over the
last few months, everyone is sick of the system. You've
had two parties rule the UK for a century, Conservatives
mostly and then Labor, and people have had enough. They
think something has to change. And Farage seems to be

(01:56):
right now flavor of the month. But as I say,
we're forty eight months out from an election, so let's
see what happens. But I think when it comes down
to it, is he realistically going to change life for
the better for many people in the UK. And does
reform have the political roots? You know how a political
party needs various different departments, It needs really switched on

(02:19):
people doing everything. I'm not sure they have that level
of depth right now.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, fair point. Now, how do you feel about all
these leaders sucking up to Trump at.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
The moment, Well, kir Starmer has led the way really.
So there was a couple of big announcements we had
on the money side of things. We know Trump loves
the deal. He's managed to convince the UK that it
needs to buy American made F thirty five A fighter jets,
twelve of them. An order has gone in yesterday, which

(02:49):
are capable of carrying nuclear weapons. So Starmer says that
is something that the UK needs are right now, the
UK only fire nuclear missiles from a submarine. Wants to
broaden out the capabilities there. And then secondly, the state visit,
which I was briefed would happen in twenty twenty six,
if not twenty seven, is now being brought forward to

(03:11):
this September. Wow, because Trump wants it as soon as so.
He's a very transactional president, we know that much. And
he is ringing everything, every last dropout of the UK
right now. And Starmer seems to be the only person
in Europe who has any kind of a decent relationship
with him. It's absolutely fascinating.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
And I don't know Mark Rutter does now that he's
called him daddy.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, that's the level we've got to. Yeah, you have
to sit down with the President of America and call
him daddy to have his ear. I mean, honestly, I've
never seen such what's the word obsequiousness?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, that's the perfect word for it. Hey, you, I
know you love running. Have you caught up on what
our boy Sam have he has done? The ultra marathon runner.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
I'll tell you I'm in such kind of shock from
my last attempted an ultra marathon that I've tuned out
from all running articles social media.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Shall I tell you?

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Tell me?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Grum broken the world record for this particular kind of
like backyard ultra marathon running, where they run a loop
of six point seven k's and they do it once
an hour, Right, they have to do it at start
of the hour, whatever they do. If they finish it
in thirty five minutes, they've got time to spend the
rest of the time napping, eating, getting a massage. He
did it one hundred and eighteen times. He ran seven

(04:26):
hundred and eighty four k's in nearly five days, and
then collapsed.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Good god right, Well, I take my hat off to him. Hey,
I'm enjoying. I'm enjoying being out in the countryside in
England in the summer, running without a rocksack and stopping,
stopping whenever I feel like that.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I don't know, having a nap or asleep or
you know, just normal normal behavior.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Inda, thank you very much, really appreciate it. Mate'll talk
to you. Seeing Into Brady, UK correspondent.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
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