LABOUR’S leaders were floundering today amid plummeting polling figures and an anti-semitism heresy hunt spiralling out of control.

Worse news was piled upon bad as the party struggled to stabilise itself following the decision to disown its candidate in the Rochdale by-election, Azhar Ali.

A Savanta opinion poll had the Labour lead over the Tories down by seven points, to its lowest level for eight months.