The poll is the latest major blow for Keir Starmer.
Labour could be on course to haemorrhage support in the London local elections this May, after a new poll found Sir Keir’s party has hit its lowest level of support on record. Londoners have turned away from the Labour Party in their droves, with just 31% now left supporting the once-dominant party.
This is the lowest level of support ever recorded in the capital for Sir Keir’s party, pipping the previous low of 32% set last summer. It is a whopping 12 points lower than at the General Election. The Tories have fallen to fourth place, but shedding a relatively more modest four points since May last year, with Ms Badenoch’s party sitting on 17%.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is now polling at 19% in the capital, with hopes they could take swathes of council seats in outer London later this year.
Reform is just pipping the hard-left Green Party, which has risen five points to 18% under new leader Zack Polanski.
The LibDems remain in fifth place on 13%.
Dr Eoghan Kelly, Postdoctoral Researcher in British Politics at Queen Mary University of London, said: “The recent upheaval in long-term electoral trends across Britain is increasingly evident in London.
“Both Reform UK and the Greens have now overtaken a Conservative Party which held the mayorship as recently as 2016.
“The continuing decline of Labour will be a cause for alarm for the party as many London seats will come into play on these numbers, with the Greens and Reform poised to benefit.”
Zack Polanski’s Greens are in third place (Image: Getty)
A separate poll by More in Common suggested that Reform UK could win eight seats in London at a general election, despite it widely being viewed as the most tough region for the party due to its large immigrant population.
Today’s Queen Mary poll also asked Londoners to rank what they believe to be the most important issues, with 47% answering policing and crime.
38% said affordable housing, with 31% saying health and 28% saying taxation.
Reform will likely target much of outer London, including Croydon, Bromley, Bexley, Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Barnet.
