Labour’s support in Scotland is going backwards, with the SNP set to regain the seats they lost to them in last year’s general election, a poll shows.

Jeremy Corbyn would lose six Scottish seats to a resurgent SNP if the results of the survey of more than 1000 Scots were repeated in a Westminster vote.

And the exclusive poll for the Daily Record also found the nationalists would take back eight seats they lost to the Scottish Conservatives in June 2017.

The results make particularly good reading for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who looks headed for a fourth consecutive Holyrood election victory.

Question 1: To what extent to you feel favourably or unfavourably to each of the following political figures? Ruth Davidson: 35 per cent favourable, 32 per cent unfavourable Nicola Sturgeon: 40 per cent favourable, 42 per cent unfavourable Theresa May: 22 per cent favourable, 57 per cent unfavourable Jeremy Corbyn: 28 per cent favourable, 48 per cent unfavourable Patrick Harvie: 15 per cent favourable, 26 per cent unfavourable Willie Rennie: 16 per cent favourable, 29 per cent unfavourable Richard Leonard: 9 per cent favourable, 26 per cent unfavourable

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She can also expect another pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament when the Greens’ seats are taken into account.

The poll by Survation – the only firm to correctly forecast last year’s snap general election result – puts the nationalists on 42 per cent of the vote for Westminster.

That’s five percentage points more than what they got at the ballot box 13 months ago.

But Labour have dropped four points to 23 per cent, while the Tories have plummeted almost five points to 24 per cent.

Sir John Curtice, the Strathclyde University professor whose accurate exit poll shocked the political world last year, calculates that would mean the SNP winning 14 more MPs to take their total to 49 out of 59.

The Tories would drop eight MPs – to five – and Labour would lose six, leaving them with just one.

The Lib Dems would hold steady on four Scottish seats after polling eight per cent.

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Curtice said: “Labour’s chances of winning the next UK election rest heavily on making a significant advance north of the Border.

“Yet it seems that Labour’s support is going backwards, and that they run the risk of losing all the seats they regained from the SNP last year.”

The polling guru said Labour’s prospects had been dented by the fact Corbyn’s increase in popularity during the general election seems to have reversed.

Only 28 per cent of Scots now feel favourably towards him, compared to 47 per cent who feel unfavourably. That leaves him with a net favourability score of -19.

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has failed to make much impact on voters at all.

Just 35 per cent of Scots have any opinion on him – with nine per cent feeling favourable and 26 per cent unfavourable.

Meanwhile, Sturgeon has dipped to a favourability rating of -2, which incredible leaves Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson as our most popular politician, with a favourability rating of +2.

The poll also predicts continued success for the SNP at Holyrood, even though compared to the 2016 election they are down three points to 43 per cent of the constituency vote and have dropped nine points to 33 per cent on the top-up list.

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Labour are on course for 21 per cent in both Holyrood votes, the Tories are at 24 and 19 per cent respectively and the Lib Dems at nine and 10 per cent.

The Greens are polling 11 per cent for the top-up list, with UKIP registering five per cent.

Curtice said the results suggest the SNP would have 59 seats at Holyrood (down four), with Labour on 26 (up two) and the Tories on 23 (down eight).

The Lib Dems would increase their seats to 11 (from five) and the Greens to 10 (from six).

SNP deputy leader Keith Brown said: “What’s clear is that fewer and fewer people think Labour are a serious alternative. They’ve got no credibility on the big issues we face as a country and their support is disappearing at a rate of knots.”

But Labour campaigns spokesman Neil Findlay fired back: “At the 2017 general election, Labour offered a radical vision of change, extending public ownership, ending austerity and redistributing wealth and power.

“Scottish Labour, with Richard Leonard as leader, are building on that radical approach.

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“The emerging dividing line in Scotland is between Labour’s plan to invest and build an economy that works for the many, not the few, or further austerity with the SNP and the Tories.”

A Tory spokesman said: “This very much reinforces Labour’s position as political non-entities in Scotland, and proves Ruth Davidson is the only alternative first minister to Nicola Sturgeon.”