The Conservatives need to form a “coalition” with Reform UK because the Tory vote is split, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said after a new poll put the parties just one point apart. 

A YouGov survey published yesterday put the Tories on 18 per and Reform on 17 per cent, with Labour in first place on 38 per cent. 

Responding to the new poll, Sir Jacob said there needed to be a “coalescence” between the two Right-wing parties. 

The former Cabinet minister told GB News: “If the Conservatives and Reform are very close, what does that tell you about dividing the Tory family? 

“If you divide the Tory family you make it worse for both parts, the in-laws and the outlaws, so to speak, and that what we need is a coalition, a coalescence, of the various parts of the Tory party family.”  

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