The Conservative Party's overall lead shrank from 11 points a week ago to just five points in a new Opinium poll. It comes amid fresh questions about who could be trading favours with the skint Prime Minister after a lavish revamp of his grace-and-favour flat above 11 Downing Street. No10 have insisted the Prime Minister paid for his fiancee Carrie Symonds' £58,000 refurbishment of the Downing Street flat himself. New reports today claim a Tory donor was asked to fund a nanny for Boris Johnson's baby because the Prime Minister can't survive on his £157,372-a-year salary. A No 10 spokeswoman said: "The Prime Minister has covered the cost of all childcare."

Source: Daily Mirror May 02, 2021 11:31 UTC