Share this New Ipsos polling paints a pretty picture for the Labour Party Reform remains Labour’s main opposition despite a new bombshell poll suggesting otherwise, Robert Jenrick has told GB News. New Ipsos polling paints a pretty picture for the Labour Party, which has its biggest majority since the election, up five points from last month to 32 per cent. Reform, meanwhile, has dropped to third behind the Tories suggesting a return to two-party politics in Britain could be on the cards.
But Mr Jenrick, speaking to Andrew Pierce on the Camilla Tominey Show, insisted this was not the case. “Polls are polls”, he said. “In the poll of polls, Reform is the second-biggest party. We’re clearly the main opposition to Labour.” He then accused the Tories of only focusing on issues affecting non-working people. Follow related topics:
GB News calls Labour's eight-point poll lead its biggest majority since the election, when Ipsos measured a lead in vote share, not a majority. It introduces Robert Jenrick's rebuttal of the poll without saying he speaks for Reform. These are small failings in a short video write-up, and the poll figures it gives are accurate.
Uses figures that mislead
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“which has its biggest majority since the election”
Why this matters
GB News calls Labour's standing in a voting intention poll its "biggest majority since the election".
The impression it gives
A reader may think the poll shows Labour with majority support, or measures a parliamentary majority.
The context
Ipsos measured vote share. Labour is on 32 per cent, which gives it an eight-point lead over the Tories. Ipsos said this was the largest lead it had recorded for Labour this Parliament. It is not a majority of any kind, and the article never uses the word lead.