Reform Are Riding High In The Polls, So Why Are They Having A Meltdown?

Commons People examines how the internal chaos within Farage's party could cost them a seat in parliament.

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Reform UK should be flying high right now.

Less than a month ago, Nigel Farage’s party won almost 1,500 new councillors in England’s local elections, became the second largest group in the Welsh parliament and broke through in Scotland by securing the same number of seats as Labour in Holyrood.

The party has also held onto a very comfortable lead in the last 300 national opinion polls, despite having just eight MPs.

And on June 18, Reform could very well strike a shattering blow to Labour by winning the Makerfield by-election.

Voters in the seat returned Reform councillors in all eight of its council wards, and two-thirds of them voted Leave in the Brexit referendum a decade ago.

Of course, they have to contend with the fact that the Labour candidate is the highly-popular Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, who is currently the bookies’ favourite to become the........

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