A new poll from Opinium has shown that Labour’s lead has grown by six points in the last week – and is now at a high not seen since the Truss premiership.
Voting intention shows that 4% more voters say they will vote Labour, and the Tory share has dropped 2%.
Here is the breakdown:
- Labour 45% (+4)
- Conservatives 25% (-2)
- Lib Dems 8% (-2)
- SNP 3% (+1)
- Greens 6% (-1)
- Reform 11% (+1)
It is a poll of 1,574 likely voters, with fieldwork conducted from Wednesday to Friday.
Opinium says that Labour’s lead last week was “at the lower end of this year’s range” – but now, it is at a high they have not seen since the Truss premiership.
In more good news from Labour – Sir Keir Starmer has widened the gap as to who voters think would make the best PM.
36% say the Labour leader would be best, 20% say Rishi Sunak would be best, 31% say neither, and 13% don’t know.
In less good news for Sir Keir – while 43% of voters think Labour’s campaign has been a success so far, a third (32%) do not.
In terms of the last week, 34% think the party has had a good week, 30% a bad week, and 36% say they don’t know.
But the figures are far worse for Mr Sunak – 61% do not think the Conservative campaign has been successful, with just 20% thinking it has been.
And 52% of voters think the Conservative campaign has had a bad week, and only 17% think they’ve had a good week.