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Anger over new cash pledge in swing seats Labour war on bad bosses who scrap tea
BORIS Johnson has an eight-point lead over Jeremy Corbyn in the latest opinion poll.
But that is less than half the one Theresa May enjoyed as she went into the disastrous 2017 election that destroyed her Tory majority.
And it is a smaller lead than other pollsters gave Mr Johnson last week.
ComRes put the Tories on 36 per cent with Labour on 28. The Lib Dems are in third place with 17 to the Brexit Party’s 10.
That would give the PM a majority of 68 with Labour losing 57 MPs. The Lib Dems would return 29 and Nigel Farage would have none.
That’s even though one in eight Tories say they will switch to the Brexit Party. One in five Leave voters at the 2016 EU referendum say they will vote for Mr Farage. One in six Labour voters say they plan to switch to the Lib Dems.
ComRes polled 2,032 adults on October 30-31.
THE Government has been accused of misusing taxpayers’ money to target voters in key swing constituencies with Facebook ads.
At least 17 adverts pledging up to £25million investment in various towns went live the day the General Election was announced on Tuesday.
They are part of My Town, a Governmentbacked campaign that seeks residents’ views on how to improve where they live.
The adverts ran without a disclaimer and were taken down by Facebook shortly after 8.30pm on Friday. They targeted voters in marginal seats, such as Newcastle-under-Lyme, which has a Labour majority of just 30 votes.
Labour MP Ian Lucas called the adverts an “outrageous” misuse of public funds.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: “The campaign ended in the run-up to the pre-election period.”
JEREMY Corbyn warned last night that a vote for Boris Johnson’s Tories will strip workers of their tea breaks and bank holidays and force them on to zero-hours contracts.
The Labour leader spoke exclusively to the Sunday Mirror as he began local campaigning. He said: “Labour stands shoulder to shoulder with ASDA workers facing the sack for refusing to sign punishing new contracts.
“We’re going after the bad bosses because we know whose side we’re on. We’re on the side of workers.
“Boris Johnson’s Conservatives are on the side of bad bosses like ASDA who cut holiday days, end flexibility for workers and make other cuts to terms and conditions. Labour will put wealth and power in the hands of the many in our country, not the elite few.” Union bosses claim that 12,000 Asda staff face the sack after refusing to sign new contracts. Mr Corbyn warned that if the Tories get back in workers would increasingly suffer under contracts like those imposed by the US-owned chain, run by parent company Walmart.
His comments come after Asda announced a seven-day extension on Friday to the deadline for staff to sign the contracts. But the firm, which does