Following recent rows, as many Reform voters feel the party would be better off without Farage as leader as believe it would be worse off
Last week, Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe questioned aspects of Nigel Farage’s leadership of the party, saying that it remained a “protest party led by the Messiah”. Lowe was subsequently suspended from the party over allegations of workplace bullying and making physical threats.
This isn’t the first time the leadership of the party has come into question. Earlier this year, Elon Musk called for Farage to be ousted as leader, appearing to suggest that Lowe would make for a better figurehead. But do Reform UK voters themselves agree that the party would be better off under new management?
A third of Reform UK voters (33%) believe that the party would be doing better under a different leader to Nigel Farage, including a fifth (21%) who think Reform would be doing “a lot” better with an alternative leader.
Nonetheless, this is against another third of Reform UK voters (34%) who believe that the party would be doing worse if Farage was not the leader, with a quarter (25%) feeling that a different leader would not affect the party’s fortunes one way or the other.
The belief among some Reform UK voters that the party could be doing better under a different leader is noticeably more prominent than among supporters of other parties, with just 14-16% of Conservative, Labour or Lib Dem voters believing that a new leader would improve Reform’s fortunes.
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