UK's Labour has 33-pt lead over ruling Conservatives -YouGov poll


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  • Friday, 30 Sep 2022

British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks at Britain's Labour Party annual conference in Liverpool, Britain, September 28, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's opposition Labour party has surged to a 33-point lead over the ruling Conservatives, according to a YouGov poll on Thursday, after days of chaos in financial markets triggered by the government's planned tax cuts.

The lead was a record high share for Labour in any YouGov poll as well as the highest figure the party has ever recorded in any published survey since the late 1990s, YouGov said.

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