A NEW party led by Jeremy Corbyn would pick up 10% of votes in an election, a new poll has said.
The More In Common poll, shared with the New Statesman, shows a Corbyn-led party would also reduce Labour’s share from 23% to 20%, putting them level with the Conservatives.
The poll most notably suggests such a party would finish first among 18 to 24-year-olds, with 32%.
In this scenario, the poll also showed the Greens, would fall from 9% to 5%, while Reform remains on 27%.
It comes as Labour are struggling to palm off a major rebellion over welfare reforms.
More than 100 Labour MPs’ signatures have appeared on a reasoned amendment explaining why they cannot support the Labour Government’s Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, which would cut back disability benefit payments by around £5 billion per year.
Last July, Corbyn said the “grassroots model” that led to his election as an Independent MP in Islington North could become a “new movement” that will challenge the “stale” political status quo.
He said the “people power” behind his victory marked “the start of a new politics”.
In an op-ed for The Guardian at the time, he said: "Here in Islington, we are planting the seeds for a new way of doing politics.”
He said he would hold a monthly “people’s forum”, which would be “a shared, democratic space for local campaigns, trade unions, tenants’ unions, debtors’ unions and national movements to organise, together, for the kind of world we want to live in”.
Last month, the Independent MP came closer than ever to declaring a new left electoral coalition or political party.
He said a new formation would be set up before the English local elections in May 2026
Speaking at a Conference of Resistance in Huddersfield, he said that everyone on the left outside Labour “will want to be part of and support” it.
Following the election last year, Corbyn beat his Labour rival with a majority of more than 7000 and quickly formed a parliamentary alliance with four pro-Gaza Independent MPs.
Earlier this month he passed a major hurdle on the path to beginning a Chilcot-style inquiry into the UK’s complicity in the Gaza genocide.
Corbyn got permission to bring in a bill to set up a public inquiry along similar lines to the official probe into the Iraq War. He proposed that the bill be read for a second time on Friday, July 4.
He told the Commons: “The public deserves to know the full extent of the UK’s complicity in these atrocities.”
