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UK polls point to ‘electoral extinction’ for Conservatives

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Market research company Savanta found 46% support for Labour Party, up two points on previous poll five days earlier, while support for Conservatives dropped four points to 21%

Britain's prime minister Rishi Sunak speaks to media during the Summit on Peace in Ukraine on Saturday in Lucerne, Switzerland. Photograph: Sedat Suna/Getty ImagesThe polls come just over halfway through the election campaign, after a week in which both the Conservatives and Labour set out their manifestos, and shortly before voters begin to receive postal ballots.

Labour's 25-point lead was the largest since the premiership of Sunak's predecessor, Liz Truss, whose tax cut plans prompted investors to dump British government bonds, pushing up interest rates and forcing a Bank of England intervention.

 

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