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Conrad Duncan

Tories and Labour tied for first time since 2019 as Starmer demands Covid Cobra meeting

Photograph: POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Labour have pulled level with the Conservatives in polling for the first time since 2019, according to YouGov research, amid mutiple crises over Brexit and coronavirus

The new poll showed both Labour and the Tories on 40 per cent, with the Lib Dems on 6 per cent, after a series of chaotic weeks for the government.

It came as Sir Keir Starmer and Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon called on Boris Johnson to hold a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee over the recent spike in coronavirus cases.

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