Labour are losing roughly 75% more voters to parties to their left than they are to parties to their right.

Looking at the yougov polling today really makes you question the labour leaderships strategy, and it should definitely be making any careerist minded labour MP question it too.

Today's voting intention poll shows that the labour vote from 2024 is currently split as follows: 63% labour, 13% lib dem, 8% greens, 7% tories, 6% reform, 1% snp, 1% plaid cymru, 1% other.

Depending on how you classify the snp and "other" portions this puts the percentage of voters they're losing to parties to their left at around 23%. The percentage they're losing to parties to their right (tories and reform) is 13%.

This means that they're losing around 76.9% more of their voters from 2024 to parties to their left than parties to their right. This should really be making any career minded labour MP (and any labour MP who still cares about the party) really question why the current labour government/leadership are still treating the right as the bigger threat and are using it as justification to shift the party further right.

It should also be making the 70% of labour members who, in recent polling, thought reform were the biggest threat to labour question their threat assessment and ability to understand who their party are really losing votes to.

If the current leadership don't course correct and start shifting leftwards soon any MP who truly cares for either their party or their career should be mounting a challenge to Starmer's leadership.

Also even with this rightward shift labour are failing to pick up votes from the tories OR reform. They've picked up 3% and 1% of their 2024 voters respectively. Even the libdems have picked up more tories having picked up 6%, showing that those leaving the tories are those who are fed up with right wing policies and want a change.

Edit: Just wanted to add an edit to add some additional numbers I just calculated from todays Yougov poll to reply to a comment.

Looking at the numbers in todays Yougov poll labour have suffered a 32% decrease in people who intend to vote for them compared to the % of the vote they got in the election, the tories a 7% decrease, lib dems a 31% increase, snp a 20% increase, reform a 54% increase and the greens a 56% increase. This is, I think, the first yougov poll this year where The Green party has a greater percentage increase in this metric than Reform does.