After the JL Partners poll putting Labour ahead of the Conservatives by 48%-28% in the Wakefield by-election, we now a poll from Survation:

A notably higher combined share for Labour and the Conservatives in this poll than in the JL Partners one. But the basic picture – Labour well ahead – is the same.

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