# UK Conservatives seek recovery at conference as Reform UK threat looms

https://mins.news/en/video/88996

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-10-07 02:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXLue7zjeV8

> Britain’s Conservatives are holding their annual conference in Birmingham as they try to establish themselves as the Right’s main voice. The party, weakened by its worst defeat to Labour in 2024, had been trailing anti-immigration Reform UK in polls, although some projections now put the two parties level. Former Conservative minister and sitting Newark MP Robert Jenrick defected to Reform in January.

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