Boris Johnson would lose dozens of red wall seats and his Commons majority if an election was held today, a brutal new poll suggests.
The Prime Minister was told as many as 54 of his MPs are at risk of losing to Labour, with dozens on the brink in northern and midlands seats.
It's the second poll since the PM announced he would pay for social care and the NHS backlog with a tax on jobs, rather than high earners or wealth.
A Times poll on Friday put Labour in the lead for the first time since January.
And today's Telegraph poll will make for more worrying reading in Number 10.
It shows the Conservatives are haemorrhaging supporters to the Greens and Reform - formerly the Brexit Party.
The survey of 10,000 Britons by Electoral Calculus and Find Out Now showed some 54 Tory MPs were at risk of losing their seats, including a string of "red wall" constituencies that only flipped from Labour to the Conservatives in 2019.
Support for the Tories slumped by 8%, from 45% at the 2019 election, to just 37% today.
While that still places them ahead of Labour, on 33%, losing 54 seats would still leave Boris Johnson on 311 - well short of the 326 needed for an overall Commons majority.
Even though the Tories would be the largest party, he would be unable to form a government without a coalition.
Among those at risk are former Tory leader Ian Duncan Smith and Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross.
It comes as the PM was reportedly set to scrap proposals to tear up planning rules, which would ban locals from objecting to some developments in their area.
The PM wanted an "overhaul" of the planning system, promising 300,000 new homes a year in England in the 2019 Tory manifesto.
But locals in key Tory seats were made furious by the plans, which blocked homeowners from objecting to planning applications through a zonal system.
The Tories' drubbing in the Chesham and Amersham by-election was blamed in part on the policy, which was seized upon by the victorious Lib Dems in campaign ads.
