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Voters favour Labour housing policy despite Tory poll dominance
Voters marginally favour Labour in terms of housing policy, despite the party trailing the Conservatives by 21 percentage points in the overall poll.
Polling by Yougov, released on Monday, shows 24% of voters think Labour would best handle housing issues compared to 22% for the Conservatives.
Answering the question “which party do you think would handle housing issues best”, 6% of voters favoured the Liberal Democrats, 10% said none and 31% said they didn’t know.
Labour has consistently led on housing in the bi-monthly Yougov poll, with the gap as wide as nine percentage points last August.
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But the Conservatives narrowed Labour’s lead recently, drawing level on 22% each in mid-February, just a week after the Housing White Paper was released.
A Labour source said the polling showed the party is “winning the long-run argument on housing” and its “aim in the next seven weeks will be to translate that into votes”.
The same Yougov polling showed overall voting intention at 44% for the Conservatives and 23% for Labour, with 12% for the Liberal Democrats and 10% for UKIP.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was picked as the best prime minister by 14% of those polled, with current prime minister Theresa May favoured by an overwhelming 50%.
Yougov polled more than 2,000 people between Wednesday and Thursday last week.
