The New British Indian Vote: From Labour Loyalists To Reform Risers

British Indian voters are shifting in unexpected ways, with support for Reform UK tripling since 2024 as economic frustration, identity politics and post-Brexit priorities reshape the community’s choices.

Farage and senior party figures have described ILR as a “scam.”

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Britain’s largest migrant ethnic minority community, British Indians, once a bastion of reliable support for the Labour Party and, to a lesser extent, the centrist wing of the Conservatives, are now increasingly backing Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, a party defined by its strong anti-immigration stance. Research by the 1928 Institute at Oxford University reveals that support for Reform UK among British Indians has more than tripled since the 2024 general election, rising from 4 per cent