Sir Keir Starmer took the weird step of strolling over the House of Commons ground to talk to rival political chief Nigel Farage and a few of that dialog has been revealed for the primary time.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, Reform UK chief Nigel Farage stated Sir Keir had made his method throughout the chamber for a “friendly” chat after a session of PMQs.
Despite retaining the precise content material of the change confidential, Mr Farage did touch upon the character of the dialog, saying: “Oh we had a little chat about this and that, but it was interesting wasn’t it (that Sir Keir crossed the chamber).
“It was fairly overtly pleasant. He was very, very pleasant.”
The prime minister made a beeline for the Reform in the House of Commons as the vote on the much anticipated Assisted Dying Bill took place.
To be expected, like many political issues, the pair were on opposite sides with Starmer voting in favour of the bill, while Farage voted against it.
Sir Keir might be wanting to learn something from Mr Farage as Reform have rocketed up the opinion polls since the General Election in July, whereas Labour’s numbers have plummeted.
Last week a new poll sent shockwaves around the Labour Party after it found Reform UK was one point ahead of the Government in public opinion.
Research by pollsters at FindOutNow put Nigel Farage’s party on 24%, one point above Labour on 23%. Although the survey did place Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative Party higher than both, at 26%, with the Lib Dems on 11%.
Speaking to Express.co.uk during a tour of his constituency Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex, over the weekend Mr Farage added that labour also had to worry about losing support to another party.
He added: “Labour, they’ve acquired related nightmares (to the Conservatives) since you’ve acquired very important Green vote now, it’s not going away, the likes of Bristol, Brighton and the massive cities. I believe that vote may even go up a bit of bit within the subsequent couple of years.
“The Green vote is a hard left vote, the you’ve got the Gaza vote which got four independents, plus Jeremy Corbyn, next time they will be a lot more just because of demographic change.
“You’ve really acquired the two-party system starting to interrupt down essentially earlier than your very eyes, so the primary previous the submit system too, that’s the actually fascinating factor if this was Europe with proportional illustration (PR), this (the Reform end result) would have occurred 10 years in the past, or 5 definitely.”
Under the First Past the Post system on this 12 months’s General Election Labour received an enormous majority with 411 MPs, however with simply 33.7% of the vote. Reform succeeded in claiming 14.3% of the vote (greater than the Liberal Democrats), however the occasion obtained simply 6 MPs in comparison with the Lib Dems 72.
Data from the Electorol Reform Society reveals that if the election has been held below a Proportional Representation system, Reform might have romped residence with a staggering 100 MPs, in comparison with 228 for Labour and 139 for the Conservatives.
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