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UK election polls: Conservative lead over Labour inches forward as election week looms



Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has inched forward, seeing its advantage over Labour widen as the parties brace for election week, the latest polls have shown.

The Tories have made a two-point gain from 39 to 41 per cent between December 4 and December 6, according to polling data from BMG research.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party fell by one point to 32 per cent, narrowing the gap between the two leading parties just days before the December 12 general election.

The Liberal Democrats made a small gains, edging up one point to 14 per cent. 

The Brexit Party also crept up one point and sit alongside the Green Party on four per cent.

It comes after the Prime Minister has said leaked Treasury documents outlining post-Brexit border checks were “wrong”.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had announced on Friday that his party obtained a confidential government report, which he claimed proved that there would indeed be customs checks.

Speaking to Sophy Ridge on Sky News on Sunday, the Prime Minister reiterated his insistence that there will be no checks on goods from Northern Ireland to Great Britain after Britain leaves the EU. 

Jo Swinson also hinted on Sunday that the Lib Dems could enter into coalition with Labour if Jeremy Corbyn ceases to be the party’s leader.

The Liberal Democrat leader hit out at Mr Corbyn branding him “obviously unfit” for prime minister.

But she signalled her party could be open to an alliance if the December 12 poll ends in a hung parliament, on the condition that the Labour leader is no longer the group’s figurehead.

Meanwhile the Brexit Party could rebrand as the “reform party” after Britain leaves the European Union, Nigel Farage has suggested.

Mr Farage said he has already formally registered the new name, adding it would fight to “change politics for good”.



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