Poll puts Labour support at lowest for 17 years
Labour’s support has dropped to its lowest rating for 17 years, according to a new poll.
The survey, conducted by pollsters Populus for the Times newspaper, has shown that just 32 per cent of people are willing to vote Labour – the lowest this figure has been since before the 1987 general election which Margaret Thatcher won by a Landslide.
At the same time, support for the Tory party has climbed by two points to 36 per cent. Those questioned were asked “How would you vote if there were a general election tomorrow?”
However, voters still prefer a Labour government to one run by the Conservatives: 58 per cent of those polled expressed a preference for a Labour government over a Conservative one.
But there is bad news for those hoping Labour will tackle the Conservative’s dominance in the European Parliament.
Forty per cent of Labour supporters said that they wanted to use the upcoming European elections to “send a message to the Labour government that they need to do better.”
Additionally fewer Labour supporters are willing to turn out on June 10th. Where 89 per cent of Conservative supporters said they were going to the polls, just 77 per cent of Labour supporters said they would vote.
Support for the Liberal Democrats held firm at 22 per cent for the third month in a row, and support for other parties is rated at around 10 per cent.
The poll is based on a random sample of 1,004 adults aged over 18, who were interviewed by telephone between May 7 and 9.
