A NEW poll predicts that Barrow would again go blue if a general election was held in 2021.

Support has now grown for the Conservatives after previous polls showed a swing back to Labour.

Commissioned for Channel 4 News and J.L Partners, it found Labour had seen a decline since November last year. 

The poll found Labour's six-point advantage turned into a four-point lead for the Conservatives.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer also saw his popularity plummet into negative territory, dropping from +7 per cent to -3 per cent.

Whereas Prime Minister Boris Johnson switched from a net positivity rating of -2 per cent to +8 per cent.

The poll also found that Barrow and Furness would return a Conservative MP were an election to take place.

Furness MP Simon Fell took the seat in 2019 to become the first Conservative MP elected for the area since 1983.

He treated the findings with caution.

"We're years away from an election so polls like this don't really tell us anything useful," he said.

"The most important thing we can do is focus on the vaccine rollout and getting life back to normal, and fighting for more funding and support for our area, like the £25million Town Deal for Barrow, or the millions in Borderlands funding for Dalton and Ulverston.

"That's what will make a real difference. "

Chris Altree, the chair of the Barrow Labour Party, put forward a theory for the decline in support.

He said: "It's the vaccine bounce so to speak.

"It's the Conservatives who are doing the daily briefings and a lot of the news has been positive lately.

"When you're in opposition it's hard to get your name out there."