Liz Truss is set for a crunch interview on the BBC's flagship Sunday morning politics programme as Labour surges ahead in the poll.
The Prime Minister will be the star guest on the Laura Kuenssberg programme as the Conservative Party conference begins in Birmingham. It comes after a series of short regional BBC radio interviews on Thursday were judged to be unfavourable for the Prime Minister.
It comes as a new People Polling poll gave Keir Starmer's party a 30-point lead which is an increase of 10 points since September 21. The survey put Labour on 50 per cent, the Tories on 20 per cent, the Lib Dems on nine, Greens on eight and Nicola Sturgeon's SNP on five per cent.
A poll published on Thursday by Survation gave the party a vote share of 49 per cent, 21 points ahead of the Conservatives on 28 per cent, while a separate poll by YouGov put Labour even higher on 54 per cent, 33 points ahead of the Tories.
The last time Labour recorded these kinds of poll numbers was at the start of 2002, during Tony Blair's second term as prime minister
BBC former political editor Kuenssberg's Sunday morning show made headlines in its first outing, after comedian Joe Lycett appeared to mock the Prime Minister.
The stand-up sarcastically claimed during the programme he was "very right-wing" and that he felt "reassured" following Truss' live interview in the studio.
The public broadcaster came under fire after his appearance for promoting a left-wing bias, but its director general Tim Davie defended the corporation.
Davie told a committee of MPs he did not think having Lycett booked for the show displayed "BBC bias in the slightest" as he felt "the audience saw it for what it was".
The weekend politics programme begins at 8.30am on Sunday October 2 on BBC One. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves will also appear on the show.
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