Labour is in fourth place in the poll which comes weeks before the local elections.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Image: Getty)
The Green Party has overtaken Labour in a new poll in the latest blow to Sir Keir Starmer. The YouGov survey puts Zack Polanski’s party in third place on 18%, up two points from the previous week.
Labour is pushed into fourth place on 17%, up one point from the week before. Nigel Farage‘s Reform UK leads the poll on 24%, while the Tories are second on 19%.
The Liberal Democrats take 13% in the survey of more than 2,000 people carried out on Sunday and Monday.
The poll comes ahead of the local elections where Labour is expected to receive a drubbing.
The Prime Minister yesterday insisted that abour would “take nothing for granted” in May’s poll.
Labour is facing the threat from Reform UK on the right and the Greens on the left.
The ballots are widely being seen as a major test of Sir Keir’s leadership after he clung to power over the Lord Mandelson scandal.
But the Prime Minister played down the possibility that he could resign if Labour suffered heavy defeats during a visit to Greater Manchester.
He said he had received a “five-year mandate to change this country” in 2024, adding: “I intend to carry through that mandate.”
Mr Farage branded Sir Keir as the “most unpopular prime minister in living memory” as he launched Reform’s local election campaign last Friday.
Meanwhile, Mr Polanski predicted last week that his left-wing party is “heading for a new record-breaking result” in the May ballots