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Labour is headed for electoral triumph – then woe in government

The party may have a 30-point lead in the polls, but its lack of real offering to voters will soon cause problems

By Paul Rogers
Labour is headed for electoral triumph – then woe in government
Keir Starmer last week controversially welcomed Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the Labour fold | Carl Court/Getty Images
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It’s widely agreed that England and Wales’ local election results were terrible for the Conservative Party, which lost 474 councillors, and not particularly good for the Labour Party, which gained only 186.

But many commentators still miss the current mood among Labour supporters. The party’s 30-point lead in a new YouGov poll has been extensively covered, but not the fact that its should-be supporters are hardly rejoicing at the news.

Because while many voters have distaste verging on outright anger at Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives, and would certainly take pleasure in seeing them ousted from government, they have little enthusiasm for the Labour alternative.

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