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Reform UK has extended its national polling lead over Labour to nine points ahead of the crucial Makerfield by-election later this month.

Nigel Farage’s party is backed by 29% of voters, up two percentage points from last month. This is Reform’s highest share in the vote since early March, an Opinium survey showed. Labour remained on 20% support, while the Conservatives were on 17%, the Greens on 14%, and the Liberal Democrats on 11%.

The national poll comes soon before voters head to the ballot box in Makerfield on June 18, where Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon and Labour’s Andy Burnham are in the lead to replace Josh Simons MP. The latter has his sights set on being Prime Minister, but the survey showed voters are unenthusiastic about the prospect of Mr Burnham entering Downing Street, with more likely to believe Tony Blair would make a better PM than any of Labour’s current leading figures.

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