After a shock poll suggested that the Prime Minister is set to lose his seat at the general election, Mason Boycott-Owen investigates whether there is any chance of the unthinkable happening in North Yorkshire next month.
Losing your seat as a cabinet minister requires a perfect storm of national and local factors to bring down a political big beast. For a Prime Minister to lose their seat, it requires a storm so perfect that it can only be described as a freak of nature. The problem for Rishi Sunak at this election is that something very freaky is happening in North Yorkshire: they’re not voting Tory.
Renee, a midwife, told our focus group: “There’s children starving, mums and dads having to go to foodbanks, foodbanks are at a record high of being used because people literally can’t afford to eat, and he said that he’s ‘poverty stricken’ was to go without Sky.” The Conservatives’ current polling deficit, that refuses to narrow, first came from the drop of support during Partygate and other assorted sleaze scandals.
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