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Leaked Labour poll puts party at just 23%

Author
NZ Herald,
Publish Date
Mon, 31 Jul 2017, 3:14PM
Labour Party leader Andrew Little. (Photo \ Getty Images)
Labour Party leader Andrew Little. (Photo \ Getty Images)

Leaked Labour poll puts party at just 23%

Author
NZ Herald,
Publish Date
Mon, 31 Jul 2017, 3:14PM

A recent poll has emerged that puts Labour at just 23 per cent - by its own pollsters.

The poll by UMR was released last week - and is likely to have been the one that prompted Labour leader Andrew Little to go to his senior MPs and put up the option of stepping down.

The Green Party was at 15 per cent in the UMR poll.

Little revealed he had taken that step after the One News Colmar Brunton poll on Sunday night showed Labour had dropped to 24 per cent - it's worst result in the 20 years of the poll's existence - and the Green Party up four points to 15 per cent - its best result in the poll.

Labour is now bracing itself for a further poll, the Newshub Reid Research poll tonight.

The results are being put down to Green co-leader Metiria Turei's admission of welfare fraud when she was a solo mother - something Little pointed to in his speech to the party's Maori candidates on Sunday as dominating the coverage.

Labour's caucus will meet tomorrow and Little's leadership is likely to be discussed, although Little said his senior MPs had told him they did not believe he should step down and he was adamant he would fight through to the election.

UMR emailed the poll out last week to its clients and it was leaked to Fairfax.

It follows an earlier UMR poll leak the week before which had Labour on 26 per cent.

In the latest UMR poll, National was on 42 per cent and NZ First was at 15 per cent - different results to the Colmar Brunton which had National on 47 and NZ First on 11.

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