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Boris Johnson enters the New Year 16 points behind Labour in a bombshell Mail on Sunday poll of the seats he needs to retain to win the next Election.
The Deltapoll survey of the 57 constituencies the Conservatives gained in the 2019 General Election puts Labour on 49 per cent and the Conservatives on just 33 per cent.
The poll also puts Sir Keir Starmer's party ahead in national voting intention, with Labour on 40 per cent and the Tories on 35 per cent.
If the results were repeated in a General Election it could lead to the loss of more than 100 Tory seats – enough to put Sir Keir in No10, although without a clear majority.
The findings come as Tory backbenchers are increasingly discussing whether to force a leadership challenge by sending letters calling for a vote to Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the Conservatives' backbench 1922 Committee.
Boris Johnson enters the New Year 16 points behind Labour in a bombshell Mail on Sunday poll of the seats he needs to retain to win the next Election
The 'Tory gain' seats are dominated by MPs in the Red Wall seats in Labour heartlands the Tories won for the first time in 2019.
Writing in today's Mail on Sunday, one of those MPs, Ashfield's Lee Anderson, warns Mr Johnson that 'some of the first-time Tory voters are beginning to have doubts' because 'the huge rises in the cost of living coming down the track, through higher energy bills, which my voters care far more about than the platitudes spouted about the 'green agenda' by the wealthy elite who flew into the COP26 summit in private planes'.
The poll finds that Red Wall voters put Sir Keir ahead in the 'best Prime Minister' rating, with 38 per cent compared with Mr Johnson's 33 per cent, and
