Tories since Johnson’s 2019 election landslide. The poll was carried out on Wednesday and Thursday just hours after the Tory Prime Minister announced his plans to hit low earners with a National Insurance hike to pay for social care in England.
But the poll is the first time Labour has been ahead after 149 consecutive Tory leads as Boris Johnson feels the strain from a series of controversial decisions and the bungled handling of the Afghan withdrawal.
As well as the manifesto-busting £12 billion-a-year rise would fix the crisis in social care the Tories broke another election pledge on Thursday, scrapping the pensions triple lock for one year to avoid a Covid statistical anomaly which would have triggered an eight per cent rise.However,.
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