Lord Kinnock said Labour’s double-digit poll lead over the Tories is still not enough to make him confident Sir Keir Starmer will win the next general election. 

The former Labour leader suggested a 20-point poll lead was “still not conclusive enough”. 

He said the party is now in a strong enough position that “we are not going to lose” the next election but he argued “that’s not entirely the same thing as winning”.

Lord Kinnock told Times Radio: “The furthest I would go now is to say we are not going to lose. That’s not entirely the same thing as winning. 

“Although, of course, given the gigantic scale of the gap between ourselves and the Conservatives in 2019 and the size of the swing that will be required to give us a majority, a bare majority, it does mean that anyone who is taking the possibility of a Labour government with a working majority for granted is a fool.”

Labour has been ahead of the Conservatives in the polls since November 2021. The Telegraph’s general election poll tracker puts the current Labour lead at 20 points. 

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