Labour’s poll lead ends after 934 days

Happy 100 days of Labour being in power! To mark this auspicious occasion, the British electorate have decided to give Keir Starmer a present that he really did not want – the end of Labour’s lead in the polls after a whopping 934 days. Yes, that’s right: the Starmer army have led in every single survey since March 2022 when Boris Johnson was gripped by his partygate woes. The subsequent Liz Truss debacle saw Labour’s lead climb to 30 points, with Rishi Sunak regularly suffering 20 point deficits. Yet after less than four months in office, that trend has now been completely reversed. Guess governing is harder than it looks eh Keir…

The fateful poll by More in Common was conducted earlier this week, in the wake of the party conference season. It found Labour and the Conservatives tied on 27 per cent each, with Reform scoring a strong third with an impressive 21 per cent and the Lib Dems climbing two points to 13 per cent. It is Labour's lowest percentage in any poll since November 2019 – back when Jeremy Corbyn was still leading the party and Keir Starmer was insisting he was his 'friend'. The Prime Minister's own net approval rating has meanwhile fallen a further five points: his net approval now sits at -38, below Rishi Sunak and down 49 points from his post election high. How low can they go in the next 1,726 days?

As the PM himself said: 'Things will get worse before they get better.'