The Labor Party has widened its lead over the Conservatives, according to the campaign’s first exclusive YouGov poll for Sky News.
A week later the race for number 10Labor is 27 points ahead of the Conservatives – erasing a small drop in lead recorded at the end of last week.
The Great Britain poll – carried out on Monday and Tuesday this week – puts Labor on 47%, the Conservatives on 20%, the Reformists on 12%, the Liberal Democrats on 9% and the Greens on 7%.
This suggests that the Conservatives have not yet recovered Rishi Sunak’s surprise decision go to the country on the 4th of July, instead of waiting until autumn.
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The party is also still struggling to bring the electoral coalition back together Boris Johnson won the round in 2019.
Of Tory voters that year, just 36% say they would vote Tory now, 19% would vote for Reform UK, 19% don’t know and 14% would switch to Labour.
This is the key group identified by Conservative headquarters, and the national service announcement on Sunday was aimed at bringing this group back into the fold.
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However, the Labor Party leads the Conservatives in all parts of Britain and among men and women.
The only groups that have the Conservatives ahead are those over 65 – albeit by a much smaller margin than in 2019 – and among people who voted to leave the EU.
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