Voices: ‘Kemi is on the way up’: Readers react as Conservatives close gap on Reform in latest poll

Our community is divided over signs of Reform UK’s decline, with some seeing a meaningful Conservative recovery under Kemi Badenoch while others view the shift as tentative, fragmented and far from decisive


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