Labour holds around a 20-point lead over the Conservatives across most major polling, with the ruling party damaged by a string of scandals and the fallout from Sunak’s predecessor Liz Truss’s “mini-budget.”
Reeves said Labour would establish a Covid Corruption Commission to investigate and recoup the billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money lost to fraud via pandemic support programs, along with cracking down on ministers’ use of private jets — an overt swipe at the current prime minister.