Keir Starmer has been warned his party is “haemorrhaging” voters to the Green Party, as senior figures have expressed fears that Labour is too focussed on Reform.

Pressured by the surge of Nigel Farage’s populist party, Labour have taken a more right-wing view on welfare, migration and transgender rights.

The number of Labour voters at the 2024 election who now intend to vote for the Greens has doubled in less than a year, according to a YouGov poll.

Current projections show 15 per cent of past Labour voters now said they would back the Greens at the next election, 50 per cent more than the number of the party’s former voters who said they were switching to Reform.

Senior figures within the Labour Party has accused the Prime Minister of abandoning its progressive values to chase votes on the right, with 120 Labour rebels opposing his prosposed wellfare bill in June.

In one of the biggest threats to his premiership as fears over a confidence vote and perhaps even a leadership contest mounted, Sir Keir was forced to conceed to demands from within his own party in a decision that was dubbed by opposition as “weak”.

One Labour official told the Times: “We are haemorrhaging far more votes to the left than we are to the right but Downing Street is doing nothing about it.

“It is just totally obsessed with Reform.”

In the poll, 45 per cent said the greens represented people such as themselves, while 63 per cent said the party was principled.

More Labour voters now trust the greens over Keir Starmers Labour Party, despite winning the election less than two years ago.

On Green policies, Labour voters were mainky supportive of the Greens policys with almost 80 per cent backed nationalising gas and electricity companies, 74 per cent supported a wealth tax and 49 per cent believed domestic flights between British airports should be banned if travelling by train took less than three hours.

The Greens have seen a surge in the polls since they elecetd a new Party leader Zack Polanski just six weeks ago who has vowed to adopt some of Nigel Farages communication and campaigning tactics.

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The Greens make up 13 per cent of voters, according a poll last week, equivalent to 3.75 million people if turnout remained constant.

This is double the the number of votes they received at the 2024 election.

More than half (56 per cent) of Labour voters had heard of Mr Polanski, compared to 30 per cent and 24 per cent who had heard of both his predecessors.

Mr Polanski said: “Starmer should be actually terrified right now about the Green Party. Because we’re about to overtake the Tories, and we are coming for him next.”

Under Mr Polanski’s leadership the party’s membership has overtaken the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, going from around 70,000 to 126,000.

Reform and Labour still reamin the top two partys with the most members.

Nigel Farages Party has seen a surge since the last general election in sign ups and support while Labour continue a five-year decline.

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