Jeremy Corbyn's popularity plunges as Conservatives take the lead
According to a BMG Research poll the Conservatives under Theresa May are on 42 per cent while Labour has plunged to 39 per cent after a post election blip put Mr Corbyn’s extreme Left party ahead.
The poll comes after Mr Corbyn - a well known pacifist who once proclaimed that he wants to abolish the army - declined to attend the 100 anniversary commemorations of the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium.
The snub was widely seen as an insult to the memory of almost half million British and allied troops who gave their lives defending democracy in Europe.