Reform Party hopes of snatching working class vote at general election doomed, say pollsters

Reform UK’s hopes of stealing working-class Labour voters away from Sir Keir Starmer’s camp at the next general election has been met with scepticism from leading pollsters, The Independent can reveal.

The rebranded Brexit Party, led by Richard Tice and co-founded by Nigel Farage, has labelled itself “the party of the working class”, declaring it is now the real home of Labour supporters.

But Britain’s top pollster, Sir John Curtice, has poured cold water on the claims, predicting that its