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LABOUR predicted a shock victory in South Thanet yesterday after it was revealed that Ukip had suppressed a poll showing Nigel Farage’s popularity falling.
The poll commissioned by a wealthy Ukip donor was covered-up when it showed Mr Farage (29 per cent) trailing the Tory candidate Craig Mackinlay by 1 percentage point and leading Labour’s Will Scobie by 1 percentage point, the Daily Mail revealed yesterday.
The news broke after the bookies slashed the odds for a second time in a month on a Labour victory to just 5/1.
Speaking yesterday, Mr Scobie said that the secret poll showed the seat was now very much a three-way marginal.
The Star reported last month that Labour hoped to “decapitate” Ukip by beating Mr Farage in South Thanet.
A Ukip spokesman claimed yesterday that the poll’s methodology was “flawed” but admitted that nobody was “pretending this is cut and dried.”
