The poll was conducted from May 31 to June 13.
London:
Three British opinion polls released late on Saturday painted a bleak picture for Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party, with one pollster warning it faces “electoral annihilation” in the July 4 general election.
The poll comes just over halfway through the election campaign, a week after both the Conservative and Labour parties publish their manifestos and just before voters start receiving their postal ballots.
Sunak surprised many in his party by announcing an early general election on May 22, contrary to widespread expectations that he would wait until later this year to allow time for living standards to recover to their highest post-inflation levels in 40 years.
According to a poll by market research firm Savanta, Keir Starmer's Labour Party has 46% support, up 2 points from the previous poll five days ago, while the Conservative Party's approval rating has fallen 4 points to 21%. The poll was conducted for the Sunday Telegraph between 12 and 14 June.
Labour's 25-point lead was its largest since the chancellorship of Mr Sunak's predecessor, Liz Truss, whose plans for tax cuts prompted investors to sell British government bonds, sending interest rates higher and forcing the Bank of England to intervene.
“Our research suggests that this election could very well be the electoral death for the Conservative party,” said Chris Hopkins, director of political research at Savanta.
A separate Survation poll published by the Sunday Times predicted the Conservatives would win just 72 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, the lowest number in the party's nearly 200-year history, while Labour would win 456 seats.
The poll was conducted from May 31 to June 13.
The Survation poll put Labour on 40% support, the Conservatives on 24%, while former Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party (the Conservatives' right-wing rival) was on 12%.
A third poll, conducted by Opinium for the Sunday Observer from 12 to 14 June, also showed the two main parties losing ground to smaller rivals, with Labour on 40%, the Conservatives on 23% and the Reform Party on 14%.
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