Labour are now NINE POINTS ahead of the Tories

Labour today opened up a nine point lead over the Tories as Theresa May’s party continues to lose voters to Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party.

If a general election was held tomorrow Jeremy Corbyn’s party would grab 34 per cent of the vote and he would be the next Prime Minister, a new Kantar opinion poll has revealed.

The Conservatives, who were polling at 41 per cent in March, are now on 25 per cent as anger over Mrs May’s failure to deliver Brexit grows.

The Liberal Democrats would secure 15 per cent of the vote with the Brexit Party on 10 per cent and the SNP on five per cent. 

A separate poll, also by Kantar, also found that half of people want a second referendum Brexit. 

Calls for Mrs May have intensified since this month’s local elections when the Conservatives lost 1,300 seats.

Ministers now fear a bloodbath at the hands of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party next week when the country goes to the polls for European parliament elections that would not have taken place if the UK had left the EU on time.

Tories slump to FIFTH place behind Lib Dems and Greens as EU election voters flock to Farage’s Brexit Party 

The Brexit Party is enjoying a growing lead in a new EU election poll with the Tories now in fifth

The Tories face the ignominy of finishing fifth in the EU elections as Nigel Farage continues to give them a battering, a new poll revealed yesterday.  

The Brexit Party is racing ahead with a predicted 34 per cent of the vote on May 23 – but Theresa May’s Conservatives are heading for just 10 per cent, a YouGov survey found.

This would put the Prime Minister’s party in fifth place behind the Greens and the Liberal Democrats, who were on 15 per cent and 11 per cent respectively.

The collapse in support for the Conservative Party is piling pressure on Mrs May to set a date for her departure from No 10 – but Labour is also down five points on 16 per cent, with confusion over their Brexit position continuing.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, leader of the Brexiteer European Research Group of Tories, appealed for disillusioned Conservatives to stick with the party for the sake of Theresa May’s replacement.

He said: ‘I would appeal to their loyalty, to their tradition and to say that the Conservative Party will get a new leader at some point. We have gone from 40 per cent to 10 per cent in the polls and those are Eurosceptics. It is forgetting about them that is destroying the Tory party’s vote’.

A YouGov poll yesterday found that the Tories were on course to slump to fifth place behind the Greens in next week’s elections.

The survey for the Times put the Brexit Party on 34 points, well ahead of Labour on 16, the Liberal Democrats on 15 and the Greens on 11. The poll put Tory support on just 10 per cent.

Despite today’s positive general election poll furious Labour MPs rounded on Jeremy Corbyn over Brexit last night as he appeared in front of the party’s backbenchers.

During a mammoth meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, MPs from both sides of the debate turned on their leader, questioning his lack of a clear stance on Brexit and his ability to become Prime Minister.

It came as party deputy leader Tom Watson added to Labour’s confusion over Brexit by declaring it was now the party of ‘remain and reform’.

At the party meeting, second-referendum campaigner Peter Kyle told Mr Corbyn: ‘Jeremy, I urge you to simplify our policy so people realise we are talking with absolute sincerity.’

Brexiteer John Mann said: ‘We are losing votes in the North and Midlands. If you cannot get this right, you cannot be Prime Minister.

‘There should be free votes for Labour in this Parliament. Labour voters are divided in a very big way.’

Wes Streeting told Mr Corbyn: ‘We need clear leadership in order to win the next general election.’

Today a former Labour minister under Tony Blair has quit the party in protest at Jeremy Corbyn’s record on Brexit and tackling anti-Semitism saying: ‘I joined the Labour Party. Not a cult’.

Bridget Prentice, who was MP for Lewisham East from 1992 to 2010, claimed the party had ‘been destroyed’ under Mr Corbyn’s leadership.

In a strongly-worded attack she said that ‘in all the major issues of the day, you have called it wrong’.

Ms Prentice, who served as a whip and junior justice minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said ‘enough is enough’ and she was resigning with ‘deepest sadness and some anger’ after 45 years of party membership.

Mr Corbyn’s leadership was also questioned by current MPs at a stormy meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday, with concerns raised on both sides of the Brexit divide.

In her resignation letter to acting general secretary Karie Murphy she said she had ‘watched in horror as Jewish members have begged for support’ and been met with a ‘slow, reluctant and inadequate’ response.

Theresa May (pictured last night) is being urged to turn her back on Labour for the good of the Tory party 

‘It is easy to say Jeremy is not racist. But there is the sin of omission,’ she said.

By ‘not standing up to the bullies and the anti-Semites’ Mr Corbyn ‘showed no leadership’.

On Brexit, she said it was ‘clear to any objective observer that Jeremy has no wish to remain in Europe’ and in his ‘limited thinking’ he viewed the EU as a ‘bad thing’.

She claimed Mr Corbyn was ‘apparently completely ignorant of the benefits it has brought to working people in this country’ and said it was ‘pandering to the baser views of racists’ to suggest EU workers were the cause of lower wages for Britons.

Ms Prentice said that he had ‘deliberately ignored’ young members over the issue of Brexit, failing to join them on the People’s Vote march.