Labor takes huge lead over Tories in new poll after chaotic 2022

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Labour is on track to win a majority in the next general election, according to a poll that gives Keir Starmer's party a whopping 26 point lead in the polls.< /p>

A People Polling survey for GB News has the opposition at 45%, with the Tories at just 19% and the Lib Dems at 8%.

It's another blow for the Prime Minister, who is trying to turn his party's electoral situation around after a summer of chaos within the Conservative Party that saw his two immediate predecessors ousted from office.

Mr. Sunak steadied the ship after taking over from Liz Truss, who resigned over her disastrous mini-budget, but her party's revival "now appears to be slipping back", one pundit said of the poll.

Several polls over the past few months, including a Savanta ComRes survey for The Independent, give Labor a large advantage over the ruling party, but the size of the lead in the popular poll The survey could set off alarm bells in issue 10.

Mr. Sunak and his aides will be concerned with the rise of the Reform Party, founded with the backing of Brexiteer Nigel Farage and led by Richard Tice, the businessman and former Member of the European Parliament.

Reform, a populist party that operates on a platform of low taxes, appears to be eating away at the Conservative Party's vote share on the right. The People Polling survey puts the party level with the Lib Dems at 8%.

Matt Goodwin, professor of politics at the University of Kent, said Mr more than enough support for a majority".

Sunak replaced Truss in October, becoming the third prime minister this year

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He added that whatever Mr Sunak does next, "he better do it quickly" because time is running out, with the next general election taking place in January 2025 at the latest, but more likely to happen. to be called in 2024.

After entering Number 10 in October, Mr Sunak and his Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, have made fixing the economy their number...