More than half of darts lovers plan to vote Reform UK , according to research into the political loyalties of sports fans. Fifty-one per cent of darts devotees intend to back Nigel Farage’s party with just 14% planning to vote Labour or Conservative , a mere one in 10 expecting to support the Liberal Democrats and just 6% saying they will back the Greens.

Sir Keir Starmer can take some comfort that Labour was the top pick of people who say their favourite sport is Rugby League (33%) athletics (28%) and tennis (25%) – although in the latter two sports Labour was just a single point ahead of Reform.

When it came to the football fans, the research by More In Common found Reform is in top place (30%), ahead of Labour (28%), the Conservatives (18%), the Lib Dems (13%) and the Greens

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