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Reform set to unseat five Cabinet ministers, poll suggests

Reform set to unseat five Cabinet ministers, poll suggests

Reform UK is on course to unseat five Cabinet ministers at the next election, as well as ousting Angela Rayner. Internal polling for Reform, seen by The Telegraph, shows the party on course to take 110 seats from Labour at the next election. Labour suffered an historic defeat in the local elections on May 8, losing 1,496 council seats across England and giving up power in the Welsh Senedd for the first time since devolution. It also lost former stronghold councils in the Red Wall of the North to a Reform surge. Reform’s polling shows five serving Cabinet ministers at risk of losing their seats to Reform at the next general election in 2029. Yvette Cooper, the Foreign Secretary, would be ousted in Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, a seat she holds with a 17,089 majority, while Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, would lose her seat of Houghton and Sunderland South, which she has held since 2010. Pat McFadden, the Work and Pensions Secretary, would be ousted in Wolverhampton South East, a seat he has held …