A new study has found that British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn may benefit from a late boost from disenchanted former backers of far-right UKIP Party in the upcoming election.
The latest HuffPost UK-Edelman general election focus group survey released on Saturday indicated that former supporters of UKIP leader Nigel Farage felt “let down” by his decision to stand down immediately after the EU referendum and none of them intend to back the ultra-right party at the ballot box later this week.
This is while local electoral experts had previously predicted that most of those who have recently voted for UKIP would vote for the ruling Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister Theresa May due to her apparent commitment to Brexit as well as her campaign vow to reduce immigration.
In a surprising shift, however, the study found that half of one of the focus groups stated that they would now consider backing Labour, describing Corbyn as “down…