Taken from a METRO report by Gus Carter, Thursday 19 Sep 2019 6:19 pm

The Liberal Democrats have pushed the Labour Party into third place following their party conference, according to a key poll. Research by YouGov puts the party on 23 per cent in the polls ahead of Labour who are on just 21 per cent. The poll comes after new leader Jo Swinson took to the stage at their party conference in Bournemouth.

During the conference Sam Gyimah became the sixth MP to defect to the party since the 2017 general election, boosting the number of Lib Dem seats to 18. New Lib Dems include former Labour MPs Chuka Ummuna and Luciana Berger. Former Tory MP Phillip Lee crossed the floor to join the Lib Dems midway through a speech by Boris Johnson.

YouGov were one of the few pollsters to predict that Theresa May would fail to get a majority, instead predicting that the outcome of the 2017 general election would be a hung parliament. The change in predicted electoral position is within the margin of error, however a continued shift towards the Liberal Democrats could suggest a growth in the party’s popularity.

Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/19/lib-dems-overtake-labour-latest-poll-10774248/?ito=cbshare

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