THE Green Party has surged past Labour and are at the heels of the far-right Reform party in latest opinion polling.

The party, triumphant in last week’s Gorton and Denton by-election, declared that it was “coming for Reform” and on course to replace Labour as the main party of the left.

The YouGov poll put the Greens four points up at 21 per cent, just 2 per cent behind Reform.

Labour is now 5 per cent behind the Greens on 16 per cent, down 2 per cent and the same score as the Tories. It is Labour’s lowest polling numbers on record.

The Liberal Democrats remain on 14 per cent. 

The Greens are the most popular party in all age groups under 50, with 49 per cent backing among 18-24 year olds.

A party source said: “We are coming for Reform and on the path to replacing Labour. Voters have been let down time and time again by high bills, toxic rhetoric on migration and failure to make real change to improve people’s lives.

“Gorton and Denton showed that if people vote Green, they can get Green. Starmer can smear us as much as he wants but the voters want change and increasingly see the Greens as party to break the failed status quo.”

YouGov polling boss Anthony Wells agreed that the Greens are now benefiting from not being seen as a wasted vote after Gorton and Denton.

Sir Keir Starmer remained resistant to the message, however, telling Labour MPs on Monday night:  “I believe, and continue to believe, that there is a mainstream majority in this country who neither want Nigel Farage or Zack Polanski as their prime minister.”

Labour is now fighting on multiple fronts, losing votes to the Greens and, to a lesser extent, Reform, whose supporters it has been chasing to little avail.

In the impending May elections it is also expected to lose heavily to the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru in Scotland and Wales respectively. 

Reform support has been sagging somewhat in recent polling. Nigel Farage blundered badly by standing Islamophobic academic Matthew Goodwin in the multiethnic Manchester constituency.

Both the major right-wing parties may lose further ground as a result of their backing for the US-Israel war against Iran, a position which is supported by just 28 per cent of the public.