The Conservatives may regret campaigning to keep first past the post in 2011

As the UK prepares for the election in July, the polls do not make pleasant reading for the Conservative party.

While some are predicting catastrophic losses, others think the Tories could be overtaken by Reform UK.

With a quarter of their 2019 voters predicted to vote for Reform in July, the Conservatives will be thinking about how this could have been avoided.