UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday (14) that a vote for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party would give Labor an electoral victory, after a poll put the right-wing nationalist group ahead. ahead of the conservatives, the prime minister’s party, for the first time.
A YouGov poll released on Thursday (13) put Reform UK at 19%, up from 17% previously, and the Conservative Party unchanged at 18%. The Labor Party, led by Keir Starmer, topped the poll with 37%.
“If this research were replicated [na eleição]she would give Labor a blank check,” Sunak said in Italy, where he is attending the G7 summit, according to British press reports.
“Ultimately, a vote for anyone other than a Conservative candidate makes it more likely that Keir Starmer will be in Number 10 [de Downing Street, a residência oficial do premiê britânico],” said Sunak.
Nigel Farage, a decisive name in the campaign for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union in 2016, which ended up being approved in the referendum (the so-called Brexit), announced at the beginning of the month that he will run in the country’s general election, scheduled for July 4 .
Farage, who assumed leadership of Reform United Kingdom, will contest the seat in Parliament representing Clacton, a city in southeast England.
He was unsuccessful in seven previous attempts to be elected to the British legislature and had said he would not run this year, but later changed his mind.
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