SIXTY-two per cent of voters want benefit cuts for migrants to help bring down the ballooning welfare bill, new polling shows.
Payment cuts to young people not in work was backed by just 38 per cent and 18 per cent would look for savings from those with mental health conditions.
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62% of voters want benefit cuts for migrants to bring help down the ballooning welfare bill, new polling shows Credit: Getty
Payment cuts to young people not in work was backed by just 38% and 18% would look for savings from those with mental health conditions Credit: Alamy
Only thirty per cent support swinging reductions overall before pointing to where savings could be found, a poll carried out by Charlesbye and Merlin Strategy reveals. MUST
Labour attempted to bring down the welfare bill by £5 billion last summer but were thwarted by a rebellion by their backbench MPs.
The poll comes ahead of the local elections where Labour are expected to receive an electoral drubbing.
It also found that 14 per cent of those who defected would go back to Labour or the Tories.
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A further 31 per cent would even look for another new party to back.
Overall, sixty-six per cent believe the country is heading on the wrong direction with only 21 per cent saying it’s going the right way.
Lee Cain, founding Partner at Charlesbye, said: “Voters have been demanding change for more than a decade, and Westminster’s traditional parties have shown themselves unable or unwilling to deliver it.
“The result is not a temporary flirtation with Reform or the Greens, but the permanent abandonment of the two main parties.
“If the insurgents disappoint, these voters will not come home – they will keep looking for something new.”
The findings were from a national poll of 4,209 adults from 2nd April 2026 to 16th April 2026.
