Labour Cabinet Members Likely To Lose Seats In Election

A host of Labour cabinet members are set to lose their seats to both Reform UK and the Greens at the next election, according to a new mega poll.

The More in Common study suggests Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting and Yvette Cooper are among those who could be kicked out by voters at the next election.

Labour leadership hopeful and former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner would also lose her seat, as would John Healey, Ed Miliband, Hilary Benn and Darren Jones.

Although Keir Starmer would be re-elected in the traditionally safe Labour seat of Holborn and St Pancras, his majority would be slashed.

Reform would win a staggering 324 seats – just short of an overall Commons majority – while the Greens would see their number of MPs quadruple to 21, the poll said.

However, Labour would plummet from 411 seats to just 102, with the Tories also falling to 81, the Lib Dems on 62 and the SNP on 26.

The findings are another blow to Keir Starmer and come less than a month before voters in England, Scotland and Wales go to the polls for crunch elections on May 7.

Around 15,000 people were polled by More in Common, who used the so-called MRP method to calculate their results.

This gives a seat-by-seat breakdown, based on the social and demographic make-up of each constituency, to come up with its forecast and is generally seen as the most accurate type of opinion poll.

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