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ON Wednesday a stunning new poll from Ipsos Mori showed Labour beating the Tories by five points — 38 per cent to 33 per cent — up three from a month ago.
Obviously this didn’t fit with Jeremy Corbyn’s “unelectable” narrative, so the media ignored these numbers and instead ran with the firm’s “headline” figure, which showed the Tories winning 36 to 35 — the same as in June.
Mori published pie charts showing both results, but said the “headline voting intention” was more reliable because it only counted people certain to vote.
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