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Why did the Observer bury a poll showing Starmer’s shrinking lead?

1 October 2023

8:39 PM

1 October 2023

8:39 PM

As Conservative conference kicks off, there is a crumb of comfort for the Prime Minister in the latest polling in the Observer – but you’d be hard pressed to actually find it in the newspaper’s write-up. The Opinium survey for the paper of more than 3,000 voters – including over 900 people who voted Tory in 2019 – shows that Labour’s lead has shrunk to just ten points over the Tories.

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