The inflection point is here --as we predicted

Reform has replaced the Tories in the polls

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Last night, as we predicted, Nigel Farage and Reform inched ahead of Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party in the national polls. The ‘inflection point’, which I have been talking about for a while, has arrived. This comes after we also successfully forecast the summer general election, Nigel Farage standing, and the rise of national populism at the European Parliament elections. Here are a few brief thoughts this morning on this historic, watershed moment in British politics.