It will be a high-pressure week for Keir Starmer.
GB News presenters said it will be a high pressure week for the prime minister (Image: GB News)
GB News Breakfast was interrupted this morning when the channel announced that a second tranche of documents relating to Lord Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to the US will be released on Monday. A government spokesperson said the documents “will be among the largest publications ever laid in Parliament”.
Former Number 10 adviser Oscar Reddrop reacted to the news and mentioned a new poll that sees Nigel Farage as the most popular leader among union members. The survey showed both Labour and Reform parties tied at 28 per cent, and Labour has suffered a 20-point drop since 2024. It also showed a sharp rise in backing for Reform, as GB News presenter Dawn Neesom said: “Many union members are now considering that Reform would be a better government.”
Former political adviser Oscar Reddrop spoke on the show (Image: GB News)
The political strategist replied: “Out of everything, and I’m a Conservative, just start with that, out of every bit of polling, information or story I see on Reform UK, that is the most impressive, interesting bit of data that’s come out. It’s fascinating that the takeover of the population in this country was way out left, and now Reform is taking over.”
Nigel Farage now ranks the most favourably viewed party leader among union members and the most popular choice for Prime Minister. He is also seen as the leader who would do the most for working people.
The Reform UK leader told The Times: “This polling tells me exactly what I have seen on the campaign trail. Labour is no longer the party of the patriotic working class. That mantle now belongs to Reform, which is now the party of those who work hard but for whom the system doesn’t work.”
23 per cent of union members said they would prefer their union to affiliate to Reform rather than any of the major political parties if they were forced to choose.
The JL Partners study polled a representative sample of 1,002 trade union members between May 14 and May 19.
A Labour source said: “Labour is, and always has been, the party of working people, from delivering the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation to boosting the national minimum and living wage.
“There is still more to be done to ease the pressure of the cost of living and put more money back in people’s pockets, and that is exactly what we will continue working every day to deliver.”
