UNION leaders have said a Times poll showing 28 per cent of public-sector trade unionists are prepared to vote for Reform UK is of “massive concern to the whole movement.”

General secretaries of the NEU, PCS, FBU, Aslef, BFAWU unions and Stand Up to Racism campaign said the far-right party is “building on despair and the feeling that has resulted from 50 years of political choices by successive governments, including Labour.”

In a letter, they warned that while workers are “rightly angry about the slow disintegration” of public services, Nigel Farage’s party is “not the answer.”

“It’s a party that will back further privatisation, dismantle the health service, attack workers’ rights, and lead an assault on the rights of women,” they said.

“Reform represents the wealthy, just as the Tories have always done, but uses anti-immigration and racist rhetoric to seem as if they are on the side of ‘ordinary workers.’

“If their divisive message wins it will weaken trade unions in every workplace and community, because unity really is strength and an injury to one really is an injury to all.

“No union can succeed if migrant members or Muslim, Jewish, Sikh or Christian members are targeted or seen as the enemy.”

They urged unions to organise in workplaces and across communities so that people “understand that Reform UK is not the answer to the struggles that they face and break their momentum.”

Noting tens of thousands of union members joined the Together Alliance march against the far right on March 28, they added: “Only through solidarity can we fight to ensure a future where communities have access to decent public services for all who need them.”

Meanwhile, the latest election watchdog data shows that Reform UK received £9 million from donors in the first quarter of the year, the largest amount given to any political party in that period.

A widely reported £3m donation from Thailand-based crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne was the largest single donation Nigel Farage’s party received between January and March 2026, figures from the Electoral Commission show.

Ben Delo, another cryptocurrency magnate based in Hong Kong, donated £4m via two £2m lump sums in January and March.