A new poll has found that the Tories have overtaken Labour in the polls after Kemi Badenoch was elected Conservative leader just over a week ago.
The poll by More in Common, published this morning, finds that the Tories have received a three-point boost in the past week, leapfrogging Labour into first place.
The Conservatives are now on 29%, with Labour down one point to 27%.
Meanwhile the LibDems have taken a hit, down three points, with Reform UK up one point to 19%.
The Greens remain steady on 8%.
According to Electoral Calculus, if these results were played out in a general election tomorrow the Tories would be on course to gain 125 seats, however Labour would still be the largest party.
Sir Keir would be forced to do a deal with the Liberal Democrats, with Labour losing its majority and 119 seats.
Reform UK, despite winning one in five votes, would gain just 3 additional seats under Britain’s first past the post system.
More in Common’s party leader approval tracker does provide some comfort for the beleaguered Prime Minister, with Sir Keir’s popularity ticking up from -30 to -25.
Ms Badenoch’s first entry in the tracker puts her on -3, much higher than the Prime Minister, though just one in three voters say they are familiar with the new Tory leader.
According to the poll, 6% say they are “very familiar” with her, 28% say they are “somewhat familiar”, however 66% say they are either “not very familiar” or “not familiar at all”.
The cost of living remains voters’ top priority, at 60%, followed by the NHS (41%) and immigration (26%).
More in Common’s Luke Tryl did warn that it’s still very early into the new parliament, and Ms Badenoch’s leadership, “so things will shift one way or another”.
