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Labour overtakes Reform in two major polls while Nigel Farage argues with a bin (www.mirror.co.uk)

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Labour are now ahead of Reform in polls from More in Common (28% to 24%) and Survation (26% to 24%). Also YouGov has Labour and Reform on level terms, both at 22%. This is the first time in over a year that Reform has not had a lead over Labour.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Kinda curious to see where that shift is coming from.

Date N Ref Lab Con LD Grn

28 Jul 2026|1,012|24%|26%|21%|10%|10%

24 Jul 2026|1,021|26%|25%|19%|10%|8%

17 Jul 2026|2,097|24%|24%|21%|11%|11%

17 Jun 2026|1,003|27%|19%|20%|12%|11%

Except for Labour, they're all within margin of error. Looks more like undecides and maybe a few LibDems are coming home to Labour than anything. Greens are depressingly flat, so this clearly isn't a big shift in ideology.

I guess just jettisoning Keir Starmer is enough to give Labour a small bounce.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you're aiming for a table, you can do a Markdown table like this:

|Date|N|Ref|Lab|Con|LD|Grn|
|-|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|
|28 Jul 2026|1,012|24%|26%|21%|10%|10%|
|24 Jul 2026|1,021|26%|25%|19%|10%|8%|
|17 Jul 2026|2,097|24%|24%|21%|11%|11%|
|17 Jun 2026|1,003|27%|19%|20%|12%|11%|

Which yields:

Date	N	Ref	Lab	Con	LD	Grn
28 Jul 2026	1,012	24%	26%	21%	10%	10%
24 Jul 2026	1,021	26%	25%	19%	10%	8%
17 Jul 2026	2,097	24%	24%	21%	11%	11%
17 Jun 2026	1,003	27%	19%	20%	12%	11%

The colons in the header line let you right-justify numeric columns, if you really want to be classy.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Thank you. I could not find the official markdown for Lemmy tables.