What do Reform UK voters believe?

YouGov shines a light on backers of rebel parties.

Reform UK are the new kids on the block. Having only been around for five and a half years, and with this being the first general election they have seriously contested (the former Brexit Party made a deal with the Conservatives not to field candidates against them in 2019), Nigel Farage’s party currently has the Conservatives’ neck in our latest voting intentions poll.

Although the party has been around for only a short time, many of those who voted for it did so relatively recently: by 2023, Reform UK's support was only half of what it is now.

But what do Reform UK voters believe? Most will point to Brexit and immigration as the party’s biggest concerns, but what do they think about a range of other domestic issues? Now, a new YouGov poll gives a rough idea of ​​what Reform UK voters think, and how those views differ from the general public and Conservative voters in particular.

What do Reform UK voters believe?

Reform British voters tend to be more culturally right-wing than economically right-wing, and while they hold fairly traditional Conservative ideological positions, they feature elements of left-wing populism on the economic front.

Of the policy statements we presented to them, 89% said the one they believed most was that young people today have little respect for traditional British values.

They are most likely to think that any migrant who crosses the English Channel into Britain should be immediately deported and never returned (86%). They are also very likely to say that multiculturalism has made Britain worse (78%).

When it comes to crime, 85% believe court sentences are not harsh enough, and 77% believe the death penalty should be allowed.

On LGBTQ+ issues, two-thirds support same-sex marriage (65%), while a similar number say transgender people should not be allowed to legally change their gender (69%).

Results on economic issues were mixed.

Half (51%) said the government taxes too much and spends too much, and 42% said the government should not redistribute income from the rich to the poor. But these are at the bottom of the table for Reform UK voters. In fact, the latter redistribution belief is at the bottom, with 33% of those who disagree saying the government should redistribute income.

While they may not be in favour of redistribution, Reform UK voters feel that ordinary workers do not receive a fair share of the country’s wealth (73%). They also think the rich should pay more tax than those on average (69%), but also think welfare benefits are currently too generous (60%).

Economic issues are not the only area where populist attitudes are widespread among reformist voters in Britain. 78% believe that wealthier Britons can break or escape the law more easily than poorer people, and a similar number think big business takes advantage of ordinary people (74%).

There was also a much wider divide on the international issues we raised with the Reform British electorate. On Ukraine, 44% think Britain should support the besieged country until Russia withdraws, even if that means prolonging the war. Meanwhile, 39% want to promote a negotiated peace, even if it means Russia taking control of parts of Ukraine.

On the Gaza Strip, 46% said they sided with Israel, 9% with Palestine, while 36% said they were undecided.

How do Reform voters compare to Conservative voters and the general public?

Some of these beliefs are clearly strongly expressed among Reform UK voters, but that doesn’t necessarily set them apart from the general public. For example, when it comes to questions about power dynamics in Britain, the proportion of Britons overall who think the rich have more legal rights to get out of office (80%), that big business exploits ordinary people (76%), and that ordinary people don’t get their fair share of the country’s wealth (75%) are all roughly the same as Reform UK voters.

On this point, the public and Reform UK's views differ markedly from those of Conservative voters, who largely agree with this sentiment, but at a significantly lower rate (51-61%).

On other issues, Reform England voters differ from both the general public and Conservative voters, particularly on issues related to immigration and British culture. The 78% of Reform England voters who think multiculturalism has made Britain worse off are more than 30 points higher than Conservative voters (47%) and almost two and a half times as likely as the general public (32%).

Similarly, Reform UK voters are more than 20 percentage points more likely than Conservative voters (64%) and more than twice as likely as the general public (41%) to want small boat migrants to be deported from the UK immediately and never returned (86%).

Reform voters (89%) were much more likely than the general public (56%) to think that young people do not sufficiently respect traditional British values, and less likely than Conservative voters (81%).

Unsurprisingly, given the party's regional origins, Reform UK voters are much more likely to want greater separation from the EU (61%, compared with 43% of Conservative voters and 22% of Britons overall).

They are also more likely to think the government is trying too hard and spending too much to reduce carbon emissions, more likely to think changing gender should not be legal and more likely to think the death penalty should be allowed.

Reform UK and Conservative voters differ from the general public in that they believe most strongly in each other's rights, but also in the belief that criminal punishments are not too harsh and welfare benefits are too generous. They are also less likely to think that same-sex marriage should be legalised (although two-thirds of them do).

Reform British voters' attitudes towards Ukraine and Russia

Last week, Nigel Farage came under fire for suggesting that Russia invaded Ukraine because of NATO's eastward expansion.

Our research shows that Reform British voters are much more likely to place at least some of the blame for the Ukraine conflict on NATO. Fifty-six percent of Britons say Russia is entirely responsible for the conflict, compared with 75 percent of Conservative voters and 66 percent of Labour voters. For Reform British voters, that number drops to 33 percent.

One in seven Reform UK voters said NATO was more responsible than Russia (15%), while 19% said NATO and Russia were equally responsible. Another quarter said Russia was more responsible but some blame still lay with NATO (24%).

None of this means that Reform UK voters are anti-NATO. Just 26% have a negative view of NATO. The majority (63%) have a positive view of NATO, but this is lower than the general public (69%) and the Conservatives (78%).

One in eight Reform UK voters are seen as actively pro-Russian. Twelve per cent say they want Russia to win Ukraine, and 11 per cent say they have a favourable view of Vladimir Putin. 86 per cent of Reform UK voters have a negative view of the Russian president, but they are noticeably less likely than other voting groups to have a very negative view of Putin – 69 per cent, compared with 88-93 per cent for Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters.

Similarly, while two-thirds of Reform UK voters say they want Ukraine to win a war with Russia, they are significantly more likely to want support for Ukraine to be reduced (40%), compared with 10-13% of other voters. One in three also have a negative view of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (35%).

Favorability rating

The biggest difference in Reform UK’s attitudes to other international figures is that they are fans of Donald Trump. The majority of Reform UK voters (56%) have a favorable view of the former US president, while 41% have an unfavorable view. This compares with just 16% of Conservative voters and the same number for the general public.

They are also less likely to be Joe Biden fans. Just 7% have a favorable view of the current US president, compared to one in three among the general public and the Conservative base (32-33%). French President Emmanuel Macron is also significantly less popular among reformist British voters (9%) than among the Conservatives and the general public (27-28%).

It is no surprise that reform British voters here in Britain almost unanimously support Nigel Farage (94%). Perhaps more surprising is that a relatively large number of people do not seem to know who the current leader, Richard Tice, is. 37% said they did not know, 50% have a favorable view and 13% have an unfavorable view.

Nigel Farage was actually more popular among Reform voters than the King (68%), and his popularity was remarkably similar to that among the general public (63%) than among Conservative voters (88%).

Reform voters are less likely to like Boris Johnson than Conservative voters (45% to 64%), but are slightly more likely to like Liz Truss (24% to 17%). In fact, they like Truss more than Rishi Sunak (18%).

Full results for the policy and attitudes questions can be found here, and for favorability and the war in Ukraine can be found here.

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