Reform UK could replace the Conservatives as the second-largest party at the next election, former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman has predicted.
The peer said Nigel Farage’s party “seem to have an argument and they seem to know what it is”.
Speaking to Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, Baroness Harman said that while she often believed that talk of party splits and decline were exaggerated, she did think this was the case with regards to Reform.
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“I feel quite conflicted about this because I don’t want to talk up Reform,” she said.
“But I actually think that Reform are going to replace the Conservatives at the next election because they seem to have an argument and they seem to know what that argument is.”
Her words highlight the increasingly bitter battle between the Tories and Reform following the general election, which saw Mr Farage elected to parliament for the first time.
Last week Sky News revealed how the co-chair of the Conservative Party, Lord Johnson, had expressed concern that Elon Musk’s relationship with Reform was diverting…
