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The Greens have leapfrogged Labour to second place in a new poll in the latest nightmare for Sir Keir Starmer. A YouGov survey puts Zack Polanki’s party on 21%, up four points from the week before.

The boost comes after the left-wing party’s victory in the crunch Gorton and Denton by-election, where Labour came a humiliating third. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is in the lead with 23%, down one point from the previous week.

Labour and the Conservatives are in joint third place on 16% each, both down two points.

It is the lowest score the pollster has ever recorded for Labour, and the second time the Tories have sunk to that level.

Meanwhile, the Lib Dems are unchanged on 14% in the poll of more than 2,000 people carried out on Sunday and Monday.

The Prime Minister last night insisted a “mainstream majority” of voters do not want Mr Farage or Mr Polanski to be PM as he addressed Labour MPs following the party’s by-election defeat.

Meanwhile, Kemi Badenoch insisted a Tory government would tackle the rise of “separatism” in the UK by uniting people “around a common culture and a common identity” in a speech yesterday.

Concerns have been raised about people forcing family members to vote in a certain way in the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Nigel Farage warned it was a victory for “sectarian voting and cheating” after Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer won the seat.

He insisted Reform’s candidate would have won last week’s by-election if only British citizens had voted and has pledged electoral reforms if he enters No 10.