Voters overwhelmingly do not believe Jeremy Corbyn looks like Britain's next prime minister and a significant number of Labour supporters are ready to turn their back on the party, according to a poll.
Nearly three in four people do not think the Opposition leader looks like he will take the keys to No 10, according to research for The Independent.
Some 37% of Labour supporters at the last election are now less likely to back the party in 2020 with one in five considering voting Conservative, the OBR survey of 2,000 voters found.
It comes as Mr Corbyn was criticised for appointing a peer to his frontbench who admitted putting lives in danger after deliberately starting a fire at a hotel.
Mike Watson, who pleaded guilty to a charge of wilful fire-raising when he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in September 2005. was given a job in the shadow education team.
The move was branded as "bizarre" by the SNP, which claimed it was proof Mr Corbyn was "scrambling around" to find people to fill the frontbench roles.
Lord Watson admitted setting fire to a curtain when he attended the glitzy Scottish Politician of the Year awards at Edinburgh's 17th-century Prestonfield House Hotel.
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http://report24uk.info/article/310129/jeremy-corbyn-does-not-look-like-next-prime-minister---pollOne gentle word of warning against undue optimism - polls don't really work over here. Trolling pollsters is a national sport - Jedi is our third largest religion, according to polls ....
