In the first weekly poll conducted for Britain’s Sky News by the Yougov polling platform Nigel Farage is just one point behind PM Starmer just six months after the UK election.

Britain’s Sky News and The Times of London have conducted the first weekly poll – a poll – of public opinion in Britain six months after last July’s election. The poll, conducted for the two British media outlets by Yougov’s platform, shows Nigel Farage and Reform as the big winners, who in six months and from 15% of the parliamentary vote are just one point behind Labour’s Starmer.

In detail, the poll shows Labour recording significant losses from the sweeping 35% with which it returned to 10 Downing Street last summer after 14 years of Conservative rule. According to today’s figures Labour has lost 9 points and is on 26%, Reform has gained 10 points since July and is on 25% while the third party is now Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives who can’t seem to rally right wing voters and is losing another 2 points, moving to 22 from 24%.

The qualitative features of the survey show that Labour has managed to hold back just 54% of the country’s voters and has lost votes to all opposition parties particularly the Liberals, Greens and Reform; 23% of those who voted for Starmers six months later say they are undecided.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, Reform appears extremely strong, drawing voters mainly from the traditional right-wing Conservative “reservoir”, 16% of whom said they would vote for Nigel Farage at the next election.

The poll was conducted last weekend and highlights as a major concern for Britons the economy to which Starmer’s staff and he personally have failed to provide tangible answers and security, an issue that seems has been highlighted by Elon Musk’s attack on the British Government and the British Prime Minister personally over the scandal of thousands of rapes and abuses of underage girls by gangs – mostly Pakistani – in the North of England.