Labor is now more trusted by voters to cut taxes, deliver on Brexit and ensure free speech than the Conservatives, a devastating poll by Redfield and Wilton has found. It comes as Techne UK’s weekly tracker poll for Express.co.uk also confirmed Reform UK’s resurgence at 5 percent and the Conservatives still 23 points behind Labour.
The loss of confidence in the Conservatives comes after the party dumped prime ministers twice since the summer with Boris Johnson removed over Partygate and then Liz Truss survived just 48 days after her mini-budget caused a collapse in the value of the pound and stock prices.
Mr Sunak’s government has enraged its own MPs with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt raising taxes while pushing the idea of a watered-down version of Brexit towards a so-called Swiss model, which accepts open door immigration with free movement of people and regulations from Brussels takes over.
According to the Techne tracker poll, Labor is 1 point lower at 49 per cent, but 23 points ahead of the Tories, who are also trailing by 1 to 26 per cent.
Meanwhile, Reform UK is up one percent to five, and the Lib Dems are up one percent to ten points.
According to Electoral Calculus, if this result happened in a general election, Labor would have a huge majority of 278, while the Tories would be stuck at just 92 seats, their worst ever result.
Michela Morizzo said part of the reason the Conservatives are struggling is because of the rise in the Reform UK vote led by Richard Tice, with some also believing Nigel Farage could make a comeback.
She said: “The political situation continues to evolve in a climate of general uncertainty. Notably, this week we have seen Reform UK and LibDems grow by one percentage point respectively. A trend, especially Reform UK’s, which started growing a few years ago weeks What does this mean?
“That at the moment the link between the voters and the parties is weaker and that the electorate tends to go where they think to find answers to their problems. However, the scenario continues to evolve and the coming months will be crucial for the future political picture.”
But the most devastating results come from polls conducted by Redfield and Wilton, which show the Conservatives are no longer the most trusted party in a range of key areas.
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Labor is now 33 to 32 per cent more reliant on the economy, according to the findings, but much more worrying for Tory MPs is that Starmer’s party is deemed more likely to cut taxes by 38 to 24 per cent in a damning indictment of Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Pronunciation.
Shockingly, Labor is considered more likely to tackle the Channel migrant crisis at 27 to 24 per cent and is even more confident in Brexit at 29 to 27 per cent.
In a week in which the Tories have also been embroiled in rows over the Online Harms Bill, Labor is now also seen as the free speech party by 33 per cent to 24 per cent.
Mr Sunak’s Tories are only more confident in a few areas, including reducing the number of illegal migrants, defense and Ukraine, but only narrowly in each category.
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The poll results came through after Mr Sunak lost his first by-election test as prime minister last night.
Labour’s Samantha Dixon was elected to the City of Chester with a 61 per cent share of the vote, a 12 per cent swing from the Tories in a seat that had been marginal.
Despite this, sources close to Mr Sunak have insisted that he believes Labor’s national leadership is “soft” and that the Conservatives could turn things around in the next two years.
But an MP who had supported Mr Sunak as leader questioned whether the leader had caught up with voters and told Express.co.uk they are considering quitting at the next election.
The MP said: “You cannot put Rishi on a leaflet and have the same impact on voters as Boris.
“I just don’t see where we’re getting our votes to recover.”