Poll: Tories are on course for a 50-seat majority

THE Conservatives are on course for a majority of more than 50 seats as voters continue to be turned off by Jeremy Corbyn, a new Savanta Comres poll has revealed.

The poll, commissioned by the Sunday Express, puts the Conservatives 10 points ahead with 42 per cent compared to Labour on 32 per cent.

The Lib Dems are stuck on a lowly 15 per cent and the Brexit Party are down to five per cent following the decision to not stand in 317 seats.

But the poll has also revealed Mr Corbyn is having a hugely negative impact on voters.

According to the survey of 2,038 adults, 53 per cent think Mr Johnson is most likely to “get Brexit done” compared to just 20 per cent for Mr Corbyn.

The poll was carried out before Mr Corbyn’s controversial announcement that he would remain neutral in a second Brexit referendum on a deal he had negotiated.

The impact of Brexit on the vote came over with 27 per cent of those who backed Labour in 2017 saying that Mr Johnson is better on it.

Meanwhile, a third of Lib Dem voters have conceded Mr

Johnson is more likely to resolve Brexit compared to one in five for Mr Corbyn, suggesting that in a tactical vote they could end up backing the Tories.

However, two in five Lib Dems think Mr Corbyn is more trustworthy compared to just nine per cent for Mr Johnson.

The lack of trust in both leaders came out in the poll with 32 per cent refusing to say which was the more trustworthy. The trust category was narrowly won by Mr Johnson on 35 per cent with Corbyn on 33 per cent.

Mr Johnson was “more Prime Ministerial” for 46 per cent to Corbyn’s 25 per cent.

Meanwhile, in a week dominated by Labour’s pledges to increase tax and public spending, voters put their trust in Mr Johnson on the economy with 45 per cent to Corbyn’s 25 per cent.

Mr Johnson also won on national security at 48 per cent to 22 per cent, and keeping the UK together at 40 per cent to 29 per cent with fears Mr Corbyn has done a deal with Nicola Sturgeon for a second Scottish independence referendum.

The only category won by Mr Corbyn was trust on the NHS, where he scored 41 per cent, just nine points ahead of Mr Johnson’s 32 per cent.

Commenting on the poll, Chris Hopkins, head of politics at Savanta Comres, said: “It seems the campaign has stabilised somewhat and, with the current Conservative lead, this will satisfy Boris Johnson more than Jeremy Corbyn.

“However, it will be over the coming weeks that leaders and policies will be placed under further scrutiny and could begin to move the needle as the public get closer to casting their vote.”

According to forecasting website Electoral Calculus, the

Conservatives would be returned with a 52-seat majority with Mr Johnson getting 351 MPS. Mr Johnson topped the poll in a business survey of more than 1,000 clients carried out by Viewshub.the survey asked business people to mark UK and US political leaders out of five in four categories – project delivery, operational excellence, responsive attitude and whether they would vote for them. Mr Johnson came first with an overall score of 2.8, with Mr Trump second on 2.2, while Mr Corbyn received the lowest score on just 1.7. Ab Banerjee, chief executive and founder ofviewshub, said: “Boris Johnson consistently out polls his rivals in every area of leadership.”