Polls have made miserable reading for Jeremy Corbyn ever since he won his first leadership election last year. And the bad news for the Labour leader is that they seem to be getting worse. The latest Ipsos Mori survey out today hands the Tories an 18 point lead, giving them a 47 per cent share of the vote. That’s the largest percentage of voters saying they’d back the Tories since before the 2010 election. It’s also a clear sign that Theresa May’s leadership is going down well with voters. Here are the numbers:
Conservatives: 47% (+7)
Labour: 29% (-5)
Lib Dems: 7% (+1)
Ukip: 6% (-3)
Greens: 4% (-1)
This latest evidence of a post-conference bounce for the Tories echoes an ICM poll out earlier this month, which put the Conservatives 17 points ahead. If those numbers were repeated on election day, as Katy Balls reported, the Tories would win a working majority of 114. But
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