Here is how Jeremy Corbyn can overcome the competence deficit

An exclusive BMG opinion poll for The Independent finds the Labour leader is seen as ‘less competent’ than Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt or Theresa May – which is the cost of his equivocation on Brexit

Jeremy Corbyn has been on the wrong side of opinion polls before, and in the 2017 election he turned the tables on them, leading the Labour Party back from the apparent certainty of landslide defeat to deprive the Conservative government of its majority.

He could do so again, but it would be foolish of him and his party to ignore the warnings in the latest BMG opinion poll for The Independent. As we report today, Mr Corbyn is regarded as less competent than either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt – one of whom will be prime minister in two and a half weeks’ time.

What is more, the Labour leader is seen by the voters as less competent than Theresa May, who resigned as prime minister before she was sacked by her party for being useless.