Jeremy Corbyn urged to ‘step down’ after Labour plunged to historic low in polls The YouGov survey put Labour in fourth place with just 18 per cent support, behind the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats

Jeremy Corbyn was challenged by a prominent Labour MP to consider stepping down after the party plunged to an historic low in an opinion poll.

The YouGov survey put Labour in fourth place with just 18 per cent support, behind the Conservatives, the Brexit Party and the Liberal Democrats.

Its findings will intensify alarm bells ringing in party headquarters since Labour’s dismal showing in May’s European elections, when it received 14 per cent of votes.

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Many pro-Remain Labour MPs blamed its hammering – losing votes to the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party – on the leadership’s equivocal stance on Brexit.

Personal ratings dip

YouGov pointed to Mr Corbyn’s low personal ratings with the public as a key factor behind the party’s woes.

The Ilford North MP Wes Streeting said Labour should be “tearing strips off the Tories” but it had not seen the quality of response or leadership required.

“I hope Jeremy Corbyn is looking at these numbers and reflecting on how he is going to lead our party out of this mess or whether somebody else would be better placed to do that,” he told Sky News.

YouGov results

The YouGov poll in The Times put the Tories on 24 per cent (up two points), the Brexit Party on 22 per cent (up one), the Liberal Democrats on 21 per cent (up one), Labour on 18 per cent (down two) and the Greens on 9 per cent (down one).

It is the first time Labour has been placed fourth in a YouGov survey.

The poll found 19 per cent of the public had a favourable view of Mr Corbyn, and 70 per cent had an unfavourable view.

This was a worse rating than Theresa May, Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt received.

The shadow Health Secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, urged Mr Corbyn to end the uncertainty over its stance on Brexit by making clear that Labour “would campaign for Remain if there was a public vote”.