Labour snatch lead over Tories after election

Labour has overtaken the Tories in popularity following the shock general election result while four in 10 people think Theresa May should resign, a new poll suggests.

Research by Survation for Good Morning Britain (GMB) gave Jeremy Corbyn’s party a three-point lead over the Conservatives, as 44% of respondents backed Labour, 41% opted for the Tories, 6% for the Lib Dems and 2% for Ukip.

A similar Survation poll conducted over May 5-6 found that 47% of respondents would vote Conservative compared to 30% Labour.

Some 48% of people think Mrs May should remain prime minister while 45% want her to resign amid intense scrutiny of her leadership following the Tories’ poor election result and the Grenfell Tower fire.

However with Brexit negotiations due to begin this week, Mrs May was the party leader that most people trusted to negotiate the best deal (52%) while 39% backed Mr Corbyn.

More than half of voters (51%) said they would now vote to remain in the EU, while 49% would vote to leave the bloc, the poll found.

Voters said they would prefer a soft Brexit (55%) compared to a hard Brexit (35%), and more than half (57%) were opposed to a second referendum at the end of the negotiations.

The poll also found that 60% would prefer a coalition to negotiate a Brexit deal, compared to 35% who favoured the current Conservative-led government to lead talks.

Survation questioned 1,005 adults between June 16-17.

“Voters said they would prefer a soft Brexit”