Two polls published today bring bad news for Rishi Sunak, with one showing a four-point drop and the other that his party is on track to win just 72 seats.
A Savanta poll for The Daily Telegraph showed the Tories fell four points to just 21% of the vote – the pollster’s lowest figure since the final days of Theresa May’s government in early 2019.
In a boost for Nigel Farage, the poll showed Reform UK rose three points to 13% of the vote.
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A separate Better for Britain Survation survey, published by The Times, predicted the Tories would win just 72 seats in the next parliament, compared with 456 for Labour.
The results would give Labor a majority of 262 seats – far surpassing the landslide victory achieved by Labor under Sir Tony Blair in 1997 – while the Liberal Democrats would gain 56 seats, the Reformers seven and the Greens one seat.
It comes after a YouGov poll on Thursday night put Nigel Farage’s party on 19% of the vote, compared to 18% for the Conservatives.
The development led Farage to declare Reform as the “opposition to Labour” ahead of the election.
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