Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should have met with Nigel Farage while visiting the UK on the chance the hard-right leader becomes Britain's next prime minister, a leading analyst says.

Mr Albanese sat down with his counterpart Keir Starmer, other progressive world leaders and British opposition leader Kemi Badenoch on his UK trip.

Mr Farage's Reform UK party could win the next election and Mr Albanese should have considered sitting down with the former Brexit campaigner, Australian National University senior politics and international relations lecturer Charles Miller said.

"It probably would've been a good idea for Anthony Albanese to meet with Nigel Farage," he told AAP.

Recent polls show Reform's popularity reaching all-time highs, and one YouGov survey published last week suggest

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