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Starmer's popularity falls as coalition chaos threatens UK, poll shows
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-poll.html
INTRO: Sir Keir Starmer's unpopularity crisis deepened last night as a bombshell national poll put the Greens second – ahead of Labour. Zack Polanski's party has also leapfrogged the Tories following last week's by-election humiliation for the Prime Minister.
It prompted warnings that Labour will be forced to form a 'scary coalition of the Left' with Mr Polanski, the Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru and the SNP at the next election.
Support for the Greens is now at 21 per cent, up by four points in the week since their victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election, according to the YouGov voting intention survey. Nigel Farage's Reform UK topped the poll on 23 per cent, with Labour and the Tories tied on 16, both down two. The Lib Dems were unchanged at 14 per cent.
The poll gives the Greens their highest national voting intention score – and also represents Labour's lowest. It comes as Election Maps UK's Nowcast Model – which simulates how a general election would pan out if one were held tomorrow – projected that Reform UK would be the largest party.
[...] The model suggested that if Left-wing parties formed a coalition, they would have 335 seats, nine ahead of the figure needed to form a majority. Robert Jenrick yesterday said the possibility of a Left-wing coalition had to be 'taken seriously', warning it would consign Britain to 'five, ten years' of decline... (MORE - missing details)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-poll.html
INTRO: Sir Keir Starmer's unpopularity crisis deepened last night as a bombshell national poll put the Greens second – ahead of Labour. Zack Polanski's party has also leapfrogged the Tories following last week's by-election humiliation for the Prime Minister.
It prompted warnings that Labour will be forced to form a 'scary coalition of the Left' with Mr Polanski, the Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru and the SNP at the next election.
Support for the Greens is now at 21 per cent, up by four points in the week since their victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election, according to the YouGov voting intention survey. Nigel Farage's Reform UK topped the poll on 23 per cent, with Labour and the Tories tied on 16, both down two. The Lib Dems were unchanged at 14 per cent.
The poll gives the Greens their highest national voting intention score – and also represents Labour's lowest. It comes as Election Maps UK's Nowcast Model – which simulates how a general election would pan out if one were held tomorrow – projected that Reform UK would be the largest party.
[...] The model suggested that if Left-wing parties formed a coalition, they would have 335 seats, nine ahead of the figure needed to form a majority. Robert Jenrick yesterday said the possibility of a Left-wing coalition had to be 'taken seriously', warning it would consign Britain to 'five, ten years' of decline... (MORE - missing details)