Labour’s lead over the Tories has fallen to one point, a survey has found. The poll, conducted between Oct 5 and 7, put Labour on 29 per cent of the vote and the Tories narrowly behind on 28 per cent.

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The survey, conducted by More in Common for Politico, put Labour on 29 per cent and the Conservative Party on 28 per cent. Reform UK was on 19 per cent, while the Lib Dems were on 11 per cent. The Green Party was at seven per cent,

One of the remaining four Tory leadership hopefuls will be knocked out of the race to replace Rishi Sunak on Tuesday as MPs vote to narrow the field to three. The par

Because “dogs bark, cats meow and the Right wing candidate wins Conservative leadership races with the members” as one member of Team Jenrick puts it. They fear Kemi Badenoch could beat them, but they reckon they would beat James Cleverly.