Tories lead over Labour reaches 24 points in latest poll

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Corbyn has refused to say whether he would resign as Labour leader if he loses the election.

May asked the electorate to "put their trust in me" and "give me the mandate to fight for Britain" ahead of Brexit negotiations.

In his first speech of the campaign, he will play the anti-establishment card that resonated in the USA and during Britain's Brexit vote past year.

Controversial business figures like Mike Ashley of Sports Direct, Sir Philip Green, Southern Rail and tax-avoiding multinationals should be "worried" about the prospect of a Labour government, said Mr Corbyn.

"They are yesterday's rules, set by failed political and corporate elites we should be consigning to the past".

But despite the utterly different circumstances facing each of them, the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats all voted in favour of a 8 June poll earlier on Wednesday.

"The Prime Minister says we have a stronger economy, yet she can't explain why people's wages are lower today than they were 10 years ago or why more households are in debt, six million people earning less than the minimum wage, child poverty is up, pensioner poverty is up".

Mr Corbyn promised he would not "play by the rules" if he won the election, but would take on the "cosy cartels that are hoarding this country's wealth for themselves".

The problem for Labour is that while it has some policies that are "attractive" to the public, voters tend to vote on "broad perceptions of competence" and Corbyn isn't able to get his message across, according to Wells at YouGov. 23% of respondents said they plan to vote Labour.

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The first big poll carried out since May called an election give her reason to be confident.

The Conservatives have hit a nine-year high of 48 per cent on the new YouGov research - against Labour in the doldrums on just 24 per cent. No margin of error was given.

"Let's look, the other parties are lining up to prop up Jeremy Corbyn - we've seen it with the Liberal Democrats and we see it with Nicola Sturgeon's Scottish Nationalists". There were warnings that he was leading the party toward a "catastrophic" defeat at the general election scheduled for 2020.

The Labour Party found new cause for internal disputes as local branch organizers, also known as Constituency Labour Party (CLP) secretaries, were told that all MPs seeking reelection would be "reselected automatically".

As it now holds 56 of Scotland's 59 MPs, it would be easy to conclude that the SNP doesn't have much to gain from June's poll.

Mr Corbyn will denounce those benefiting from the current system as "wealth extractors" and say it is only to be expected that they will oppose him.

In a sign of the discontent within the Labour ranks, Tom Blenkinsop immediately said he would not stand for re-election. Yet, so far, although we have seen many individual members of both the Labour and Conservative parties switch to the Lib Dems, only a handful of councillors and no MPs or MEPs have done so.

"It took Labour until 1997 to recover from 1983", said Fielding.

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