Smith’s primary message has been that he would be a credible prime minister in waiting, but his campaign has seemingly failed in selling this to the party membership.
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The promises are part of his seven-point “digital democracy manifesto” which is created to extend and protect peoples’ internet rights.
The new poll is likely to give Mr Corbyn’s campaign a boost as the fight for votes continues.
A polarising figure since June’s EU Referendum, Mr Corbyn is now facing a leadership challenge from Owen Smith, who recently campaigned in Medway, although bookies make him strong favourite to remain at the head of the party.
Launching his Digital Democracy Manifesto in Shoreditch this morning, Corbyn also spelled out plans to issue people with digital passports and open sourcing publicly-funded software projects if Labour wins the next general election under his leadership.
The “Traingate” controversy where Corbyn said he was forced to sit of the floor of a Virgin train because it was “ram-packed”, which was later disproved, has had little impact on the Labour leader with only 5% of respondents saying that it changed their view of him.
Owen Smith has said he would not block a second Scottish independence referendum, in a move that will cause some consternation in the Scottish Labour Party.
Corbyn’s “Digital Democracy” speech also comes a week after a United Nations report announced that disconnecting people from the Internet is a human rights violation and against worldwide law.
In an escalation of the row between Mr Corbyn’s team and Labour HQ, Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, said she had been disgusted by attempts to topple the Labour leader.
“Labour will get smashed at the next general election, similar to 1983, if he stays”. “I’m looking forward to coming to Ealing to outline policies on the economy, on housing and the NHS that will transform West London when Jeremy is leading the next Labour government”.
Mr Corbyn also has the backing of the union affiliates by 54% to 33%.
And she warned the growing divide between the party hierarchy and its members could see the Labour Party repeat mistakes made under Tony Blair when the rank and file members were left “alienated, demoralised and ignored”.
People living in hard to reach areas were offered a subsidised satellite broadband connection if they could not get an affordable service of at least two Mbps.
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In that poll Corbyn received 59 percent of the vote, winning around 250,000 votes, way ahead of runner-up Andy Burnham who received 80,000 votes.
