Just a few weeks ago, the governing Tories in Great Britain appointed a new prime minister, Liz Truss.
She was supposed to pull the party out of the polls after her scandalous predecessor, Boris Johnson, left.
So far, only the opposition has benefited from her first steps as head of government.
The Labor Party hit a new poll high.
As the conservative newspaper The Times reported on Tuesday, the Social Democrats under party leader Keir Starmer were 17 percentage points ahead of Prime Minister Truss's ruling Conservatives in a recent YouGov survey.
This is the largest margin since Labor won the election under then Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2001. According to this, in a general election, 45 percent of voters would currently vote for Labor and only 28 percent for the Tories.
Labor presents itself harmoniously
It's a welcome boost for Starmer, who was due to deliver his speech at the Labor Party Conference in Liverpool on Tuesday.
At the conference, which lasted until Wednesday, the party presented itself more harmoniously than it had in years.
The opposition party is benefiting from criticism of the government's sweeping tax cuts, designed primarily to benefit the wealthiest in society - and rejected by more than two-thirds of voters, according to the YouGov poll.
The new prime minister, Liz Truss, of the Conservative Tories, had herself admitted that her course was more favorable to the well-off.
The opposition accused the government that capping energy prices would cost billions and would have to be financed on credit, which would later fall back on the taxpayer.
Economists have also expressed concerns about potentially excessive debt, and the aid organization Oxfam spoke of a “win-win situation for the richest”.
Following the announcement of the debt-financed plans last week, the pound's exchange rate plummeted against the US dollar - to its lowest level in 37 years.
The government is actually hoping for a revival of the economy.
A general election in Great Britain is not normally expected until sometime in the course of 2024.
But there are already rumors that Prime Minister Truss could come under pressure from within her own party over the controversial measures.
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