The Labour Party has crept up by two points but the Tories maintain a strong lead ahead of next month's general election, according to a new poll.
The figures, gathered by Survation from 1,010 people between November 20 to 23, put the Conservative Party on 41 per cent despite dropping one point.
Meanwhile Labour has jumped from 28 to 30 per cent, slightly narrowing the gap between the two leading parties.
Jo Swinson's Liberal Democrats remain the third biggest party at 15 per cent, having gained one point.
The Brexit Party follow, still standing at five per cent while the Greens remain on three per cent. The other parties, including the SNP and Plaid Cymru, make up the remaining seven per cent.
The fresh survey comes after the Conservatives launched their manifesto on Sunday, with Boris Johnson promising to focus on the NHS and crime after delivering Brexit.
But already the manifesto policies have been attacked by Labour and fact checkers.
While the Prime Minister’s pledge of boosting the NHS with another 50,000 nurses secured headlines, Labour said the figure was disingenuous when it included 19,000 nurses who the Tories want to retrain and another 12,000 from overseas.
It means only 19,000 posts would be filled by new nurse trainees enjoying the return of maintenance grants.
Independent fact-checking organisation Full Fact also pulled the Tory leader up on his claim that his ministers would increase day-to-day government spending by only £3 billion.
The figure is small compared to Labour’s promised £83 billion increase in spending, paid for by higher taxes on big businesses and the highest five per cent of earners.
But Full Fact said, despite Chancellor Sajid Javid promising the “most transparent costings that have ever been published in British electoral history”, the Tories had not explained how every pledge in the manifesto would be funded.
