Nigel Farage's Reform UK takes the lead in a new poll published today. The Find Out Now survey puts the insurgent party on 31%, up one point from the week before.

Labour is eight points behind on 23%, down one from the previous week. Meanwhile, the Conservatives trail behind in third place on an unchanged 16%. The Lib Dems take 12% and the Greens receive 11% in the poll of 2,628 British adults carried out yesterday.

It comes after Reform was plunged into chaos earlier this month when chairman Zia Yusuf quit in a burka ban row.

He described a question by new Reform MP Sarah Pochin at PMQs calling for a ban on the garment in Britain as "dumb".

But he returned 48 hours later saying he had made an "error".

Mr Yusuf will now head up the party's "UK Doge" to cut public spending.

It is based on the US Department of Government Efficiency which was led by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

He described the job on Tuesday as "one of the most important missions this country will embark on since World War Two".