Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch is preferred as Prime Minister to Keir Starmer. Photo: PA

Kemi Badenoch has been handed a boost ahead of her make-or-break Tory conference speech today as fresh polling has shown the Tory leader is preferred as Prime Minister over Keir Starmer.

The latest City AM /Freshwater Strategy survey has shown that Badenoch leads Starmer by two percentage points as the country’s preferred Prime Minister, a marginal difference that points to voters’ hesitancy over leadership across the two mainstream parties.

Polling shows that 36 per cent of voters prefer Badenoch to Starmer while 34 per cent back the Labour Party leader over her, leaving a remaining 29 per cent of people who said they were unsure or did not back either candidate.

The voter share of

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