4 March 2026 - 7:00am
Reform UK is now the most disliked party among British voters, according to new polling.
A More in Common survey asked which parties voters would tactically block, and found that 38% of Britons would vote against Reform, up nine points since last November. In second place was Labour on 34%, down four points.
According to the poll, Green voters were the most likely to say they would vote tactically against Reform UK, a view also shared by Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters. Voting against Labour was a priority for 67% of Reform supporters, while only 11% thought it was crucial to vote against the Greens. As for Conservative voters, 46% thought Labour should be blocked and 24% would vote against Reform.
It comes less than a week after the Greens won the Gorton and Denton by-election in what had previously been a Labour stronghold. Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin came in second place with 28% of the vote, behind Hannah Spencer on 40.7%. Ed Hodgson from More in Common said the new survey could shed some light on last week’s result. “I think it helps explain the result in Gorton and Denton where a particularly polarising Reform candidate drove high turnout among people now motivated to block Reform.”
Nigel Farage’s party is still leading in polls, yet a new poll from YouGov yesterday shows the Greens overtaking Labour in second place. Zack Polanski’s party is now at 21%, two points off Reform UK on 23% and five ahead of the governing party on 16%. It is also the most popular party in all age categories under 50. Polling from Lord Ashcroft published this week — but carried out before last week’s by-election — found that Reform’s lead was becoming shakier, placing it at 22% rather than the high twenties it has enjoyed in most polling for the past year.
But it is not only Reform that will feel threatened by changing trends. The Greens’ recent spike in popularity since Polanski became leader in September last year has come at the expense of Labour, as Gorton and Denton proved. According to the Guardian’s poll tracker, at the end of January the Greens were polling at 13.5%, five points behind Labour on 18.6%, but had almost doubled their support among 18- to 24-year-olds under Polanski. Notably, YouGov polling in January suggested that one in five 2024 Labour voters would consider voting Green. Opinium polling over the weekend found that figure had shot up to almost 50%.
Ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election, Keir Starmer said that Reform was pushing a politics of “toxic division”. After the by-election defeat, the Prime Minister conceded that “we were fighting the extremes of the Right and the extremes of the Left.”
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