Tories open up a RECORD 22 point poll lead over Labour after Theresa May’s success in local elections
THERESA MAY's Conservatives have opened up a record lead over Jeremy Corbyn's Labour in a fresh poll.
New research shows the Tories on 49 per cent, with Labour lagging behind on 27 per cent.
The data from ICM for The Guardian suggests a sweeping win for the PM in next month's poll.
It was conducted directly after the Prime Minister's party made big wins in last week's local elections.
She turned Britain blue as they took a whopping 563 council seats - crushing Labour and all but wiping out Ukip.
They won 11 councils including Derbyshire, Lancashire and Lincolnshire.
Their candidates were elected Mayor in both the West Midlands and Tees Valley — a Labour heartland.
And the Tories also made huge gains in Scotland.
If today's poll was replicated on June 8, it could give Mrs May a majority of more than 170.
The Tories were up two points on the week before, while Labour was down one.
The Liberal Democrats are on nine per cent, with Ukip on just six per cent.
ICM Director Martin Boon said the results of today's poll, which show a 22-point lead for the governing party, were "historic".
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And the news comes just as a new poll in Wales confirms the Tories are on for a stonking victory there too .
A poll from Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre puts Mrs May's party on 41 per cent there, with Labour on 35 per cent and Plaid Cymru on 11 per cent.
He said: "Not only is the lead an outright record for any ICM poll, but the Conservative share is a record in the Guardian/ICM series."
The poll also came after the PM launched a scathing attack on Brussels chiefs last week.
In a speech that shocked Europe, Mrs May lashed out at bureaucrats for trying to meddle in our elections by undermining her Brexit negotiating position.
In a blistering attack on EU politicians on the steps of Downing Street, she said: “There are some in Brussels who do not want these talks to succeed… Who do not want Britain to prosper.”
Kicking off 36 days of campaigning with a bang, she said that Britain’s “negotiating position has been misrepresented in the continental press” – after reports emerged in German newspapers over the weekend which referred to a supposedly disastrous Brexit dinner at Downing Street.
She went on to slam both European politicians AND officials for issuing “threats against Britain”.
“Whoever wins on 8 June will face one overriding task: to get the best possible deal for this United Kingdom from Brexit,” she said, slapping down Brussels chiefs.
“All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect the result of the General Election that will take place on 8 June.
“By contrast I made clear that in leaving the European Union, Britain means no harm.
“We continue to believe no deal is better than a bad deal.”