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Brexit Party poll: Nigel Farage’s party would WIN general election – UK polls tracker


The Brexit Party had hoped to take its first seat in the constituency of Peterborough, in the by-election there after its Labour MP was recalled. Polls showed candidate Mike Greene was well in the lead, but he failed to take the seat from Labour. However, the win wasn’t a comfortable one for Labour, with candidate Lisa Forbes taking 31 percent of the vote against Mike Greene’s 29 percent.

What do the latest polls show?

The latest poll from YouGov shows the Brexit Party remains in the lead for general election voting intention.

The poll, conducted on behalf of the Times between June 9 and 10, asked 1,702 British adults what their voting intention was in Westminster.

The Brexit Party took the lead with 26 percent of the vote.

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Next was the Liberal Democrats with 22 percent, followed by Labour on 19 percent and the Tories limping in fourth with 17 percent.

Elsewhere, the Green party are on eight percent, while Change UK take one percent and UKIP are on a statistical zero percent.

The results showed much of the same when the same sample group was asked who they’d vote for if an election was held tomorrow.

But it’s important to remember that, while polls can provide a sense of public mood, they are notoriously unreliable when it comes to predicting the outcome of elections or referendums.

After the Peterborough loss, Nigel Farage said he was “pretty buoyed” as the result had “come from nowhere and produced a massive result”.

Indeed, the party is in its infancy, and managed to secure a drastic victory in last month’s European Parliament elections.

But before setting their sights on the next election, Mr Farage and his team need to focus on a new threat of possible illegal donations.

The party’s online funding system left it open to “a high and on-going risk” of impermissible donations, the Electoral Commission said.

Sums of more than £500 must be registered and must come from within the UK under electoral law.

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Concerns were raised during the European election campaign that the party could allow multiple donations – potentially from outside the UK – to circumvent the rules.

The party has said no rules were broken and it would “embrace” the recommendations on checking donors.

During the campaign, it said donations of £25 or less had accounted for 90 percent of its total funding.

It raised more than £2m from small donors, thousands of whom paid £25 each to become registered supporters.



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