Reform leads in an opinion poll. How seriously should we take it?
Don’t expect these new figures to be transient outliers.
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Ben Walker is a senior data journalist at the New Statesman and writes extensively about elections and UK public opinion. He is the co-founder of poll aggregator Britain Elects.
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