Sunak: Farage’s Far-Right Party Will Help Labour Win

June 14, 2024 Britain, Politics

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned on Friday that a vote for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party would hand electoral victory to Labour, after a poll put the right-wing group ahead of Sunak’s Conservatives for the first time.

Farage is one of Britain’s most recognisable politicians best known for his decades long – and eventually successful – crusade for Britain to leave the European Union. His Reform UK party began life as the Brexit Party in 2018, during the tortuous negotiations on how Britain would leave the bloc.

Farage’s unexpected return to frontline politics has split support among right-of-centre voters, badly damaging Sunak’s hopes of winning an election he was already predicted to lose to the opposition Labour Party.

Read the full article. The snap election is July 4th.

Farage said a vote for the Conservatives would “enable” a Labour government in a flip of Tory campaign rhetoric.https://t.co/FrFM5woHeu

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