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New polling by YouGov reveals that Reform UK is gaining support among Britain’s Christian communities, disrupting the traditional relationship between Christians and the major political parties.
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In a recent article, The Spectator said middle-ranking civil servants have been in contact with a close associate of Nigel Farage. Reports indicate that some have reached out to discuss potential collaboration, particularly as Reform UK gains political momentum. The revelation comes amid speculation about Reform’s growing influence and its potential to challenge both Labour and the Conservatives in upcoming elections. “The question is no longer ‘Could Reform win?’ but ‘Can anything stop them?” The Spectator said.
For those who are unfamiliar with UK voters’ sentiments, many now realise there is little difference between the traditional political parties; more and more people are viewing the Green, Liberal Democrats, Labour and Conservative parties as a uniparty – the Green/Lib/Lab/Con party. So, to bring about change, voters understand that they need to elect another.
Unlike the USA, analysis of voters in the UK mostly takes the form of geographical locations: towns, cities, regions and countries are identified as either Labour or Conservative supporters based on historical election wins. Little else about voters’ identities is mentioned.
In the following, Stuart Fox, a senior lecturer in politics at the University of Exeter, uses a recent YouGov poll to discuss which parties are being supported by Britain’s Christians and how, in a historic shift, their support is changing.
Note: Fox refers to Anglican Christians, which could result from how the poll’s questions were structured, for example, the poll provided a list of denominations to choose from. Within England, there is the Church of England, which is not the head but merely one of the churches within the Anglican Communion. The Communion, a collaboration of autonomous churches which have a shared heritage, has a strong presence throughout the world, especially in Africa where the vast majority of Anglicans live. It shouldn’t be seen as a given that the Church of England is part of this worldwide Communion, as demonstrated by tensions in recent years caused by the Church of England’s stance on same-sex civil unions.
Read more:
- African Anglican leaders threaten split from Church of England over same-sex union blessing, The Week, 17 February 2023
- The Future of the Anglican Church: A Schism on the Horizon? International Centre for Sustainability, 2 October 2024
New Polling: Reform Is Winning Over Britain’s Christian Support
By Stuart Fox, as published by The Conversation on 25 July 2025
When we look at how people vote in elections and why they choose certain parties, analysis often focuses on age, education, location or socioeconomic status. Less discussed in Britain is religion. But close to two-thirds of its adults are still religious – expressing either a religious identity, holding religious beliefs, or taking part in religious activities.
For the one-in-three adults in Britain who are Christian, this identity remains an important influence on their political behaviour. New polling, published here for the first time, shows how Reform UK is disrupting our previous understanding of how Christians vote in British elections.
The relationship between Britain’s Christian communities and the major political parties goes back centuries. The Conservative Party has been very close to English Anglicanism since its emergence in the mid-19th century. Catholics and free-church Protestants (such as Baptists and Methodists) have tended towards the Labour and Liberal/Liberal Democrat parties. Even as Britain has become more secular, these relationships have persisted.
Anglicans, for example, have tended to vote Conservative even when the party was in dire straits. In the 2024 election, 39% of Anglicans voted Tory (Conservative) even as the party’s national vote share fell to 24%.
Since the 1980s and particularly in elections since 2015, however, we have started to see changes to the Christian vote. The traditional Catholic attachment to Labour has deteriorated, as has Labour’s appeal to other Christian communities such as Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians.
Instead, driven by the rising salience of social values (attitudes towards immigration, social change and national identity) as a determinant of political support, the socially conservative leanings of some Christians of all stripes have led to increased support for the Conservatives. And those who traditionally did so – the Anglicans – have become even more supportive. The result has been a steady coalescing of the Christian vote behind the Conservatives.
But now, new polling by YouGov (on 23-24 June 2025) for the University of Exeter reveals that this realignment is being disrupted by the growing popularity of Reform UK.
Instead of asking who people would vote for tomorrow, a nationally representative sample of 2,284 adults was asked how likely they were to ever vote for each major party, on a scale from zero (very unlikely) to ten (very likely).
While not the same as a direct question about how someone would vote in an election, the likelihood question provides a much richer measure of the strength of their support for all of the major parties.
Among Anglicans, Labour remains deeply unpopular: over half gave the party a 0. In contrast, the Conservatives still enjoy strong support among Anglicans, with 35% giving them a vote likelihood of seven or higher – the kind of support associated with voting for the party in an election.
Reform, however, has caught up. Despite only 15% of Anglicans voting for Reform in 2024, 38% now rate their likelihood of voting for the party as high. That’s the same as the proportion who are strongly opposed to Reform – showing that while the party polarises Anglicans more than the Conservatives, Reform could win as much Anglican support as the Tories in an election.
Catholics show a similar trend. Labour’s traditional support is eroding: 40% of Catholics said they had zero likelihood of voting Labour, while 29% are strong supporters. As with Conservatives for the Anglican vote, Reform is almost level-pegging with Labour for the Catholic vote at 28%. It has even supplanted the Conservatives, of whom 22% of Catholics are strong supporters.
It is not yet clear why this is happening. The distinction of Christian (and non-Christian) voting patterns is not an artefact of age – there are many studies that prove this is the case.
It may be that Reform’s stances on issues such as immigration resonate with Christians’ concerns to the extent that they are willing to set aside their historic party loyalties. Or it may be that Christians are as prone as other British voters to turn to Reform out of frustration with the performances of Labour and the Conservatives in office.
Swing Voters And Party Competition
This data also shows the extent to which voters’ support for parties overlaps or is exclusive. In other words, which voters have a high vote likelihood for only one party (and so are likely committed to backing that party in an election), which do not have such high likelihoods for any party (and so will probably not vote at all), and which have similarly high likelihoods for more than one party (effectively swing voters, persuadable one way or the other).
Among the religiously unaffiliated, 29% aren’t strong supporters of any party. For Catholics, it’s 26%. Anglicans are more politically anchored, however, with only 20% in this category.
While traditionally, we would have expected this to reflect Anglicans’ greater tendency to support the Tories, only 17% of Anglicans are strong supporters of only that party, compared with 21% who are firmly behind Reform. These aren’t swing voters; they’ve switched sides.
A further 12% of Anglicans have high vote likelihoods for both the Tories and Reform. These are swing voters that the two parties could realistically expect to win over.
Catholics are even more fragmented. Only 13% are strong supporters of Labour alone, along with 12% and 17% who are strong supporters of the Conservatives and Reform alone, respectively.
Few Catholics are torn between Labour and the other parties, but 5% are swing voters between the Conservatives and Reform: the Tories’ gradual winning over of Catholics over the last 50 years is also being challenged by the appeal of Reform.
The party has provided a socially conservative alternative to the Conservatives, with the result that the Christian vote has become more fragmented. The Tories are no longer the main beneficiaries of Labour’s loss of its traditional Catholic vote.
In addition, Reform is as popular as the Conservatives among Anglicans, and as popular as Labour among Catholics. This suggests it is appealing across the traditional denominational divide more successfully than either of the major parties.
If there is to be a single party that attracts the bulk of Britain’s Christian support, at this point it is far more likely to be Reform than anyone else.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Rhoda,
I’m a Christian and I haven’t voted in any election, general or local since 1999-nor will I ever again.
Politics is all about compromise-God in Christ knows nothing about compromise.
It “beggars belief” that those who would call themselves Christian haven’t woken up to this veritable fact. They might attend church, but do they read the Holy Scriptures?
Reform UK belong in the bin.
I read somewhere a long time ago that the definition of politics was “trouble”, now vindicated by a lifetime’s experience of it. Party politics breeds division, which is what politics is all about IMHO, maintaining the status quo of the Uniparty that has no allegiance to the electorate. I’m with you, Islander, never having voted for many years other than to spoil a voting paper by writing across it “none of the above”. Maybe if every voter did that, nobody would be elected? As for the Christian vote, not many Christians present when Danny Kruger gave this speech in an empty Commons a few days ago, says a lot about what the absent MP’s religion really is https://x.com/danny__kruger/status/19455963482920169677
Said it before, I am a sovereign being under God’s natural law; not corporate, man-made law.
Hi Islander, the problem is not the politicians, it is the people. Sure, many politicians are corrupt but the people are to blame as well. After the English civil war, the people had the chance to take their power back from the monarch. Then in 1215 the king’s power started shifting to parliament instead of to the people and over the years people gradually reverted back, by choice or indifference, to being ruled by a king until we have what we have today – people viewing parliament as their new king.
How did the people make parliament their new king? By turning to government to solve their problems, by looking to government to lead them while those who could see what was going on remained silent. It is the people, over many generations, that has done this – some from action and others from inaction, but mostly from inaction by the majority who have been apathetic and /or disinterested in what politicians are doing.
The people have created this problem and it is the people who can solve it.
People need to stop looking to the government to solve their problems or seeing politicians as leaders, or conversely disengaging and pretending politicians don’t exist. All public funds raised through taxes should be used within the UK’s borders on public services, unless the the public explicitly gives approval. This is government’s sole job – to administer public funds and public services on behalf of the people. Government should not be allowed to make statutes or deals with other countries or supranational organisations without explicit approval from the people. All statues need to be reassessed and stripped back and probably all statutes from Tony Blair’s time forward need to be repealed.
How does the government seek the public’s approval, through referendums, whether its referendums at the local level and MPs relay the results to parliament or referendums at national level. People need to get more involved, not less. And people need to assert their authority because if we don’t, it can only end one way – being ruled by a dictator tyrant, totalitarianism, which is where it is heading.
Rhoda,
You say “the problem is not the politicians, it is the people.” What are politicians but people?
Also, “the people have created this problem (true) and it is the people who can solve it.” Sorry only the personal return of God in Christ will do that!
Hi Islander, politicians are people but when I say “the people” I am referring to the tens of millions in the UK who are not politicians.
You say, “Sorry only the personal return of God in Christ will do that!” True. But until that happens we live on this Earth. And while we live on this Earth we have to find a way to exist without killing each other. One of the ways we do that is to have a police force and a justice system. While there is a police force and a justice system we need a body to administer the taxes collected, redistribute them to public services (such as the police and the courts) and to keep public services (such as the police and the courts) in check so they do not become tyrannical dictators. That is why there is parliament – to administer public funds and public services on behalf of “the people.”
Who monitors Parliament to ensure they do not overreach? It is “the people” who monitor parliament – this is what democracy is, governance by “the people.” And that is where it has gone wrong – too many of “the people” have not done what they are supposed to be doing which is to keep parliament in check. Too many of “the people” bury their heads in the sand while others have placed parliament as their new king and so let politicians take over – the result? Politicians/Parliament has taken over. There are fewer than we than we think that view parliament as king (they are usually on the hard-left to far-left of politics, maybe 10% of the population, because this is what socialist/communist ideologies train them to do) – so it is, in the main, “the people’s” apathy, over generations, that has allowed this to happen. Evil prevails when good men do nothing.
“Evil prevails when good men do nothing.”
Chapter and verse please?
Every one of them is gone back; they are altogether become filthy;
There is none that doeth good, no, not one. Psalm 53:3.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable;
There is none that doeth good, no, no not one. Romans 3:12.
Democracy has never worked – nor will it; it is the vehicle whereupon his man Antichrist will rise to power.
Please understand, I don’t say there aren’t any good men around (those with the Spirit of Christ) but my Bible tells me evil will prevail until the Lord destroys antichrist with the brightness of His Coming. 2 Thessalonians 2:8.
“Evil prevails when good men do nothing.”
This has always been a manipulative lie. First and foremost, there is no such thing as a good man who does nothing. The ideas are antithetical. But if you examine what it really means (as I have) “doing nothing” always, always means doing something someone else thinks you should be doing instead of what you are doing. It is, in other words, arrogant.
As it is applied to politics it usually means propping up government instead of seeking first His kingdom. Voting, protests, and political activism are “doing something” while things like prayer, loving others or supporting a family are “doing nothing”.
Jesus resisted the temptation to “do something”, which he easily could have done, and instead did “nothing”.
Good comment.
“Evil prevails when good men do nothing” has a semblance of wisdom, but when held up to Scripture is a meaningless statement-for what Christian doesn’t want to do good?
On His way to the cross, the Lord said My kingdom is not of this world: if My kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He shall presently give Me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Democracy is the world’s system-the coming theocratic system will be set up by Lord upon His personal return.
By voting, signing petitions, protests, and getting involved in the murky world of politics, all the Christian is doing is playing into Satan’s hand.
As you well know-it is possible to do the wrong thing!
Totally agree – we, by our indifference and inaction, are giving them free reign to do exactly as they please. If more people don’t wake up to the tryranny being played out in this country we are surely a lost cause. 🙁
Jack Hibbs and many other sound teachers encourage their congregants to vote Republican. Not because they are all Christians, but because, like Trump, they support the Christian faith. If they don’t vote, the Democrats get in & they are visibly satanic. In the UK, its fair to say the Labour socialists & Communists are totally ungodly, hence they also serve Satan. Their leader Starmer is a WEF agent like Schwab & Gates etc, who are part of the Luciferian agenda.
And Boris Johnson is a Freemason too……
As well as Nigel Farage, just look for the handshakes and the company they keep!
One in three are Christian. Where are they, because I never meet one.
The goal of freemasonry is communism, and the worship of Lucifer in a one world government. Considering Nigel Farage is a Mason (check out his thumb on knucle handshake), I wouldn’t hold out any hope that Reform is going to do anything different than the other so called parties.
They’re all in the same club. I paraphrase here from Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars, “Keep them busy busy busy like animals on the farm”.
Just remember it is as equally important for the enemy to control the opposition, as it is to control the main narrative.
Don’t be fooled. They are in the destruction phase before they rebuild the world in their image. The plan is, and always has been, to usurp God.
John 14:6 I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Furthermore, the assumption that Anglicans and Catholics are Christians is misleading
Coming to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is NOT corporate salvation, that is by being a member of a Denomination, BUT by a personal relationship with the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who, as God manifest in the flesh, died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day
Deny any part of THE Gospel, and you deny your own personal salvation
For example, the Catholic Church retains an old man ON THE CROSS
Many of the false world religions (religion = a man made system of works to “earn your way to paradise/heaven/nirvana”) accept Jesus as a great teacher but NOT as God!
The so-called “Church of England (Anglican)” was captured long ago by the pagan ritualistic Romanist Catholic Church in the Counter Reformation movement by the organisation set up for this very purpose (“Society of Jesus” otherwise known as the “Jesuits”). This objective is stated on their own website!!!
An honest Catholic will admit that they are NOT Christian, we have the very examples of Tony Blair, Lady GaGa and Joe Biden, allegedly professing Catholics, as evidence of this
The ecumenical (one world religion) movement has been especially successful in capturing many of these denominations by just seeing how many Evangelical pastors (Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland and their ilk) have visited Rome at the behest of the Pope
Regarding “Mother Church” (outside of which there is no salvation according to their false traditions of men, masquerading as Catholic Church Catechisms) the Bible is clear;
“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” (Revelation 18:4)
Unfortunately, a Roman Catholic cannot be a Christian There is an anathema from a former Pope which states. “If anyone claims that by faith in Christ alone he can be saved” let him be anathema maranatha. As we know, that is in fact the only way to salvation. I would also doubt that many Anglicans are Christians. If you just look at the belief system of their archbishop & bishops, they actually exclude themselves.
Absolutely!
They are clear in their Catechisms
Faith + works, a false gospel against which the Apostle Paul gave 2 WARNINGS with biblical anathemas (“accursed”);
“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. [Prov 30:6] As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” (Galatians 1:8 to 9)
I was a 4th degree Mason & Lucifer was never a part of it. One of the questions was “In all cases of difficulty & danger, in whom do you put your trust”. The answer must be, “In God”. There’s no question that at some point in the hierarchy there is a change. Those of us still in the God believing range don’t know where that shift takes place. All we know is that at the 33rd Degree level, where King Charles is, they have to be Luciferians. That’s why they operate at the level of the Illuminati, who declare that no one may be part of them without being a Luciferian.
Hi Lookout, as you use the past tense “was” a freemason, I say thank God you are no longer part of it. And by extricating yourself you have dodged a bullet, so to speak.
I haven’t read the book linked below so I can’t comment on it but from the write up on Amazon it looks like an interesting read. It says, “[Freemasons’] real purpose is to undermine the teachings of Christianity. They are the true masters of deceit. Specifically anti-Christian, Masonry is working for a secular-humanist new world order.” Read the full write up below:
https://www.amazon.com/BROTHERS-SECRET-LODGE-Freemasons-World/dp/1973164663
Thanks for this Rhoda
As a former UK Police Officer I can personally attest to the evil in this organisation from which people never leave without consequences, or to “reveal the method” (Altyan Childs video for example)
Reading the 33rd degree “worshipful master” (opposite to the Bible again, worship no man and call no man on earth master) writings of Albert Pike and “Morals and Dogma”, it is crystal clear as to the gradual indoctrination of the initiates, who have the nerve to call us public “the vulgar and the profane”
They swear an oath of secrecy ON PAIN OF DEATH if they ever reveal their secrets!
And by the way, let each off a multitude of crimes, from drunk driving to murder, say no more on this!
Hi Tom Wilks, my introduction to freemasons was at a fairly young age, when I was a teenager.
My elder sister used to run the Sunday School in the church hall. One day, during the week, she popped into the church hall to pick up something she had left behind.
She got the shock of her life when she walked into a freemasons’ meeting. She got out of there really quickly but witnessed enough to realise they were conducting what can only be described as an evil ceremony.
This was a long time ago, and I can’t remember the details of what she saw now. But it was an impression that has lasted my whole life. As far as I recall it was a 3rd degree meeting, or at least that’s what the Priest claimed when my mom tackled him about allowing freemasons to use the church hall. I recall the 3rd degree bit as the Priest admitted to being a freemason himself (it was a charity club he said, nothing more) and was a 3rd degree mason – which brought further shocks to us all. But even at that level it is patently obvious from their rituals that it is satanic. From what my sister witnessed, I struggle to understand how freemasons from the 1st to the 3rd degrees justify that there’s nothing wrong with it because there is obviously something at least very odd going on even at the lower levels, even if they don’t understand the words and symbolism being used in these meetings.
Absolutely and thanks for sharing that experience, it must have truly been horrendous to have had such an impact!
Not only are the writings of Albert Pike enough to shock people who take the effort to read them, but the very fact they have TWO CALENDARS!
A.D. of course is Anno Domini, the year of our Lord
A.L. is anno lucifer, the year of Lucifer
‘Nuff said!
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but you have to believe in A GOD, not specifically THE GOD OF THE BIBLE
You cannot be a Freemas## if you’re an atheist
So, people like Ricky Gervais, stating they’re atheists, are lying as they are “part of the club”
(As a “rule of thumb” ANYONE who’s made it, MPs, actors, musicians, are all part of this “club”)
They do NOT believe that Jesus is God, a fundamental part of THE Gospel which they deny
Respectively, you are still part of an organisation that is pure evil, whether they reveal their true intentions or not. The truth is they run everything on behalf of their masters. The Scottish Rite most likely work with the CIA and the Military Industrial Complex, DARPA to produce false flags, catastrophic events to pay homage to their little “g” god.
Having researched this for some time, I have come to the conclusion that the five eyes countries are the most evil in the world.
It’s simple, and people don’t quite get it. The war is on us, the public. What the Masons describe us as “vulgar and profane”. How sick and ironic.
To conclude, if you were going to invite men into a fraternity at step one, two, three four etc, you would have to invite with flowery words and help up, brotherly unison etc at first wouldn’t you.
Look at the masonic black and white floors. Black and white equals duality. Their evil works are balanced by their good works. You know, they do so much good for charities and Childrens’ hospitals.
Deception, corruption and blackmail is why we are in this position, end of.
Well said!
And you might hear them spout “we’re not a Secret Society, we’re a Society which keeps secrets”
Well, here’s one for you
“For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12:14)
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