A major 15,000 survey and a seat-by-seat analysis indicates Rishi Sunak’s party may win fewer than 100 seats.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks with second team players during a visit to Gloucester Rugby Club in Kingsholm, Gloucestershire
Unease about the Prime Minister’s leadership will have been fuelled by a major poll which indicated Labour is on course for a landslide win, with a projected 286-seat majority. Mr Sunak has suggested the election will come in the second half of 2024, with ministers speculating about dates in October or November in recent weeks.
The Survation study for internationalist campaign group Best for Britain put Labour on 45% with a 19-point lead over the Tories on 26%.The poll suggests the Scottish National Party would pick up 41 seats, the Liberal Democrats 22 and Plaid Cymru two.Former Cabinet minister Sir Simon Clarke, a prominent critic of Mr Sunak, told the Sunday Times :the Tories were “sleepwalking to a historic disaster”.
“Only a shift to properly conservative policies, to deliver the change in the way the country is run that people voted for with Brexit, can alter that.” But a model of what would happen if Reform UK did not stand suggested the Tories would win 150 seats – still a crushing defeat, but potentially giving Mr Sunak, or more likely his replacement, a better chance to rebuild.
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