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Labour leader Keir Starmer leaving BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, January 14, 2024
LABOUR is on course for an election landslide — all thanks to Reform UK — after major polling today revealed large public support.
The most detailed and comprehensive survey of voting intentions, including a poll of 14,000 voters, conducted by YouGov, shows Labour securing a Commons majority of 120, including winning back all the “red wall” seats lost to the Tories over Brexit in 2019.
But it is not enthusiasm for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour but the rise of the hard-right Reform UK that is doing damage to the Tories, the survey found.
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
JOE GILL looks at research on the reasons people voted as they did last week and concludes Labour is finished unless it ditches Starmer and changes course
