Queensland Premier Steven Miles and Labor livery are missing from candidate campaign material

Queensland Labor MPs have hidden their party affiliation and the face of the Premier Steven Miles from their election material as polls show the government is headed for defeat.

Current election campaign material for member for Pumicestone, Ali King, with the traditional Labor branding removed.

Labor MPs have distanced themselves from Premier Steven Miles and are hiding their party affiliation on campaign material ahead of next month’s Queensland election in what the opposition describes as an attempt to sneak back into office.

With polls pointing to a bruising defeat for the Miles government and dissatisfaction with the Premier’s performance rising, candidates who in 2020 proudly printed the Labor name, logo and trademark red on their corflutes and flyers have gone to lengths to obscure their allegiance from ­voters.

Kim Richards’ billboard is without any Labor branding.

Candidates who bore the image of Annastacia Palas­zczuk next to their own in 2020 have conspicuously left Mr Miles off the campaign material this time.

The Newspoll published by The Australian on Saturday showed the LNP had jumped 10 points clear of Labor – 55 to 45 per cent after preferences – and was on track to win government for the first time since 2015.

If the predicted 8.2 per cent swing against Labor were replicated across the state on October 26, it would deliver the LNP a comfortable majority of 55 seats in the 93-electorate parliament.

The poll also showed 46 per cent of voters believed Liberal National Party leader David Crisafulli would make a better premier than Mr Miles, who had 39 per cent support despite dishing out $3.7bn in cost-of-living giveaways in recent months.

2020 election campaign material for Toohey MP Peter Russo showed Annastacia Palaszczuk and Labor branding.

Current election campaign material for Peter Russo with traditional Labor branding removed.

The Australian is aware of at least 10 examples of Labor MPs using campaign material that does not appear to show their ­affiliation.

While some the flyers are decorated in the purple colour scheme used by Queensland’s Together Union, others show MPs against plain backgrounds with their own colour palette carrying their names and electorates but no mention of Labor.

The LNP has accused government MPs of deliberately trying to mislead voters. “Labor MPs are so embarrassed and ashamed of their decade of failures they’re running Miles from their leader and Labor colours,” deputy LNP leader Jarrod Bleijie said.

“They’re so desperate to sneak back into government they’re trying to con Queenslanders by debranding from Labor.”

Asked whether the Premier believed his colleagues were trying to distance themselves from him and the party, a spokeswoman said Mr Miles was not focused on campaign material.

“The LNP might be focused on the colour on a corflute,” she said.

“The Premier and his Labor team are focused on doing what matters for Queenslanders.”

On Saturday, Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon, one of five ministers who would lose their seats if the swing identified by Newspoll was replicated across the state on election night, said the government’s cost-of-living policies were garnering support from voters.

“Everyone I speak to knows about the cost-of-living relief our Labor government is delivering,” she said. “I don’t think I’ve spoken to a single person who doesn’t know about 50c fares.”

Primary support for the LNP has surged under Mr Crisafulli’s leadership, growing from 35.9 per cent at the 2020 election to 42 per cent, according to Saturday’s Newspoll.

Support for the ALP remains above the 26.7 per cent primary vote mustered by Anna Bligh’s government at the wipe-out 2012 election when Labor was reduced to seven seats.

With Labor holding power in Queensland for 30 of the past 35 years, 57 per cent of voters ­believed it was time to “give someone else a go’’, while only 29 per cent of those surveyed ­ believed Labor ­deserved to be re-elected.

Labor strategists had banked on the big-­spending June budget, which included $1000 energy ­rebates, a 20 per cent cut to car registration fees and 50c public transport fares, to give the government a boost in the polls.

But the boost has failed to materialise.