Look! All this sniping at Jeremy Corbyn is wrong and now we have proof. The Labour leader is not in fact trashing his party’s brand. Today a poll from ICM puts the Conservatives and Labour level on 36 per cent, a jump of four points for the opposition and a drop of three for the governing party.
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But before Corbynistas have had a chance to gather up their red flags and take to the sunny streets to celebrate, ICM has already issued a clarification which, in essence, trashes the poll’s finding. You can read the full list of caveats to the poll here, but the key lines are that ‘the headline figures are somewhat misleading, and few should be in any doubt of ICM’s view of our own survey’, and that ‘the word “rogue” is too often used in polling analysis, but in our view it is hard to believe this phone poll will escape such labelling’.
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