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Labour is now ahead of Reform UK in national polling. Several individual polls have already shown this, but the trend is now clear in poll trackers – datasets using all available published polling to show what is happening with voting intention.

At Westminster the most widely consulted tracker may be Politico’s, and today, for the first time since March last year, it is showing Labour ahead of Nigel Farage’s party. It has Labour on 25% and Reform UK on 24%.