Labour Narrows Gap With Ruling Conservatives Ahead of U.K. Vote

BMG poll shows Tory lead over Labour is cut by about half
Opposition party gains support in four of five Sunday polls

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By Andrew Davis and Giulia Camillo

November 30, 2019 at 5:38 PM UTC

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November 30, 2019 at 10:38 PM UTC

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The Labour Party gained on the ruling Conservatives in four of five polls with two weeks until the U.K. election, with one of them signaling a possible hung parliament.

With the vote on Dec. 12, a BMG Research poll for The Independent on Saturday showed support for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives slipped 2 percentage points to 39%, while backing for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party jumped 5 points to 33%, the poll said. That 6-point lead is less than half the margin in BMG’s Nov. 21 survey. It was the smallest gap among five polls to be published Sunday.