HOLDING BACK A LANDSLIDE
CORBS COMING FROM BEHIND IN ELECTION FIGHT
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn shows he is a safe pair of hands and can keep his eye on the ball as he saves a penalty.
Yesterday the Arsenal fan joined kids for a kickabout before heading to Wembley to see his team lift the FA Cup.
He will be bolstered by our exclusive ComRes poll. It shows a six point drop in the Tories’ lead from two weeks ago.
The Tories are at 46 per cent and Labour at 34. And with 11 days before Britain votes Mr Corbyn is within striking distance of becoming PM.
Only a fifth of voters say Mrs May is most likely to protect elderly people dependent on social care while Mr Corbyn scores 43 per cent. Yet nearly 70 per cent of voters aged 65 and over will still vote for her. Mr Corbyn leads among those aged up to 44.
His personal ratings are up in every category while Mrs May’s are down in all but one.
Mrs May scores 48 per cent to Mr Corbyn’s 18 as best to lead Britain’s Brexit negotiations. But she is two points down on our last survey, while the Labour leader is up three.
Now 41 per cent of voters think Mr Corbyn will best look after the interests IT’S not easy to get excited about the General Election campaign after so much horror, pain and sorrow in Manchester.
We might even feel guilty about enjoying this bank holiday break.
The beautiful weather seems almost insulting to the beautiful children who died.
But if Manchester can show its pride, resilience and spirit for life in the face of the worst terrorist atrocity in that fine city’s history, then so can we.
It does not mean we do not mourn. It does mean life goes on. Which is why families across the land will be getting out the barbie, delighting in fetes and pageants with friends and neighbours, or splashing about happily on the beach.
It is how it should be. It is how the British show terrorism can hurt us but it cannot beat us.
And we cannot forget, either, the resumption of the stalled election campaign, with only days to go to make up our minds.
The Sunday People is a politically independent newspaper – frank, fearless and free of allegiance to any political party.
We want only what is best for the constituency that matters to us most – our readers. And it cannot be in the interests of our readers for Theresa May to be returned with a majority so big she can do what she likes.
That is why today we provide a guide to the marginal constituencies where voters are best able to influence the election result.
We know our readers are also independentlyminded, with four in ten of you supporting Labour and one in three the Conservatives.
One in ten of you have yet to decide of hard-working families, up six points. Mrs May is down four at 28 per cent.
Four in ten voters also believe he is more likely to deliver improvements to the NHS compared to Mrs May on 25 per how to vote on June 8. The polls may be narrowing but a Tory landslide still remains a real possibility.
Mrs May has already shown what she might do with a huge majority. She has been forced to U-turn on elderly care. But only because we have yet to vote.
While we welcome her rethink we worry that she failed to think through the policy in the first place. And she is still unable to come up with the details we need to know.
It is right that care costs should be capped. But until she says at what level, the promise is meaningless.
Had she been PM with an unassailable Tory majority, she would have steamrollered these plans through Parliament without a second thought.
In this, as with so much else in the Conservative manifesto, crucial detail is lacking. She promises the NHS £8billion but will not say where that money will come from.
Her appeal to the voters is: “Trust me, give me a blank cheque, and all will be well.”
But voters cannot trust the word of a political leader who has already shown how cavalier she can be with words. She pledged not to call a General Election and she did.
She was a key figure in a government which promised not to raise National Insurance and then tried to do just that.
Either she is incompetent as politician or her word is worth nowt. We must not give her a Parliamentary majority which would let her run wild.
That is why this newspaper believes it is vital to keep the number of Tory MPs down. And the only way to do that is to vote tactically for the candidate most likely to beat them.
If Mrs May has to be PM then let her be a PM with her wings clipped.
That way. she will lead a government that, by not being in the palm of her hand, cannot get out of hand. cent. But she trumps him at 42 - 16 per cent as most likely to keep Britain safe from terrorism in the wake of the Manchester bombing.
But Mrs May is down six points as most likely to reduce migration, though a third of voters back her to do that compared to one in ten for Mr Corbyn.
Yet some 65 per cent say policies not leaders will determine how they vote.
This will help Labour as 42 per cent think it has the best policies for families compared to 37 per cent for the Tories.
ComRes interviewed 2,024 adults online from May 24-26.