A YouGov poll in the Times this morning has put Labour 30 points ahead of the Tories, its biggest lead since the downfall of Liz Truss
The poll puts Labour on 48% and the ruling Conservatives on 18% with the gap between the two parties was the biggest since October 2022
It is the first survey since local and mayoral elections last week inflicted heavy losses on the Conservatives.
Reform UK, who narrowly missed out on second place in the recent Blackpool South by-election, are on 13 per cent.
The poll also found voters are unconvinced by Sunak’s claim that Britain is heading for a hung parliament.
14 per cent think there will be a hung parliament after a general election, while 66 per cent of people expect a Labour majority. Just 5 per cent said there would be a Tory majority of some sort.
Meanwhile the former Tory Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi, has become the latest Conservative MP to announce he will not be standing again at the general election.
In a statement he said that “had come to feel that the time is right for a new, energetic Conservative to represent Stratford-on-Avon”.
Zahawi was surrounded in controversy after he was found to have breached the ministerial code by failing to declare an HMRC investigation into his tax affairs
