NEW POLLING by The Daily Telegraph suggests Labour would pick up two of the three new Reading-area seats in the next general election.
The newspaper commissioned YouGov to carry out one of the most comprehensive studies of how people would vote.
Nationally, it suggests the Conservatives would lose 196 seats, and Labour gain 183, switching control of the government for the first time since 2010.
The poll also suggest the Lib Dems would gain 37 seats, while the SNP would lose 25.
Eleven cabinet ministers could lose their seats in what would be the biggest decline in a party’s fortunes since 1906 – beating the 1945 post-war election that led to a Labour government and the creation of the NHS.
The newspaper has released a postcode checker so readers can see how their constituencies would vote, and this has been arranged for the new boundaries, the first time they have been contested.
If the poll was accurate, the new Earley and Woodley seat, which includes parts of Whitley and Shinfield, would be won by Labour.
The Reading Central seat would see more than half of voters back the party, while the Reading West and Mid Berkshire seat would be a crumb of comfort to the Conservatives.
While the Lib Dems and Greens have announced their candidate for this seat, the Conservatives have yet to select a successor to Sir Alok Sharma.
In Earley and Woodley, Conservative candidate Pauline Jorgensen had 31% to Labour’s Yuan Yang on 35%. The Lib Dems polled 19%, Reform 7% and the Greens 6%.
Reading Central would see Labour have 51% of the vote, the Conservatives 23%, Greens 10%, Lib Dems 8%, and Reform on 7%.
It is closer in Reading West and Mid Berkshire: the Conservatives polled 35% to Labour’s 31%. The Lib Dems are third on 17%, Reform on 9%, Greens on 7% and other, which would include the independent candidate, on 2%.
