While just one poll, and with fieldwork conducted July 6th in the midst of the Conservative party’s blue on blue barrage to remove the Prime Minister, today’s extraordinary figures may well reflect those going ons, or of course not.

Labour’s 45% showing would be the highest we’ve seen for the party in the current parliament from any pollster. In fact we have to go back to a Survation poll published December 4th 2017 to find such a figure for the party when Corbyn’s Labour, possibly still with a post election spring in their step, had a matching vote share albeit with a smaller 8 point lead over Theresa May’s Conservatives.

A snap General Election, which the Prime Minister was loathe to rule out this week, with this type of party vote shares would have theoretically resulted in a Labour Majority of 88, using regional swing in England & Wales and our latest Scotland only polling.

Boris Johnson’s net leader approval rating slumped a further 9 points as he prevaricated over his future – the contra effect of this was Keir Starmer turning from a slight net negative just last week to a positive 7 point net approval, a whopping 48 points clear of the PM on this measure.

Damage also clearly occurred to the Conservative Party’s own standing, dropping from a 23 point approval deficit to Labour to a 35 point deficit in a matter of a few days.

Approval of the government’s performance naturally also took a dent (many in the government had resigned by this point) to -32% – depths only previously reached by the PM himself.

And finally the best PM charts see Starmer accelerate to his highest absolute and relative scores, on what must have been the very worst of days for Johnson to be audited in this manner.

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Data tables for this research can be found here. Survation conducted online polling of 1,052 adults in the United Kingdom on July 6th 2022.

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