{"id":86779,"date":"2025-10-17T06:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=86779"},"modified":"2025-10-17T06:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:56:43","slug":"people-are-consigning-labour-and-the-tories-to-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/17\/people-are-consigning-labour-and-the-tories-to-history\/","title":{"rendered":"People are consigning Labour and the Tories to history"},"content":{"rendered":"

The electoral tables are turning. This is the latest opinion poll data<\/a> from FindoutnowUK:<\/p>\n

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To the final decimal point, the Greens were actually a tiny fraction ahead of Labour. And as Owen Jones has noted:<\/a><\/p>\n

The Greens are enjoying their best polling in their history. Just 13 months after winning the election, Labour is on its worst polling recorded in the post-war period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Owen shows his youth: in the 1989 European Parliament elections, the party won 15% of the vote, but that is deep history and not a Westminster poll.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But what is most interesting is this data:<\/p>\n

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34% of people have no idea who they will vote for. Only just over one in five are actually sure they will vote for Reform.<\/p>\n

Things look grim for Labour, but the truth is no one is convincing many people when politics is in such a total mess. Nonetheless, the Greens can say they're increasing in popularity, and that is a significant change when Labour are falling off a cliff edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The electoral tables are turning. This is the latest opinion poll data from FindoutnowUK: To the final decimal point, the Greens were actually a tiny
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