Sir Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow after backing for Labour dropped to a record low of just 17 per cent, according to a new poll.
The YouGov survey showed Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in first place on 27 per cent, up one point from last week.
Labour was down three points to 17 per cent, below its previous nadir of 18 per cent in July 2019 at the height of the Brexit rows.
The Conservatives were unchanged on 17 per cent, the Greens up one point to 16 per cent, a record high for them, and the Liberal Democrats also unchanged on 15 per cent.
The findings come as the Government has been hit with fresh woes over immigration, the economy and national security, and after a crushing by-election defeat for Labour in Caerphilly, south Wales, for a seat in the Senedd, the Welsh parliament.
Further doubts were cast on the Government’s “one-in-one-out deal” with France as one of the migrants deported across the Channel came back again on a small boat.
The Epping sex offender Hadush Kebatu, an Ethiopian national, was also released by mistake from HMP Chelmsford before being re-arrested in Finsbury Park, London, at the weekend, before deportation back to the African country.
Kebatu, an asylum seeker who had been staying at the Bell Hotel in Epping, was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.
On the economy, Chancellor Rachel Reeves was hit with a blow as expected changes to UK productivity forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility have left her with a £20 billion shortfall to fill at the Budget which she has signalled would see tax rises for millions of households.
The Government has also been caught up in the row over the dropping of spy charges by the Crown Prosecution Service against parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash and academic Christopher Berry who are alleged to have passed information to China.
They both deny wrongdoing.
A sub-section of the YouGov poll on London results showed support for the Green jumping from 12 per cent in a survey carried out on August 31/September 1, before Zack Polanski was elected party leader, to 21 per cent now.
However, the London sample is only around 300 voters and so there is a significant possible margin of error.
But the polling in the capital, carried out on October 26 and 27, put the Greens in second place behind Labour on 29 per cent, compared to over 50 per cent in spring last year, highlighting the fall in popularity for Sir Keir’s party even in one of its strongholds.
The Lib Dems were down from 17 per cent to 11 per cent between the end of August and now, according to the London polling figures, the Tories unchanged on 18 per cent and Reform UK up one point to 17 per cent.
