A shocking survey reveals that Liz Truss’ Conservative party would get only three seats if elections were held today, virtually totally losing the popular vote.
According to a recent YouGov survey, the Tories are behind Keir Starmer’s Labour Party by an enormous 33 points.
According to the most recent data, Labour received 54% of the vote, while the Conservatives received 21%, less than half of what Labour received.
If the survey were repeated in a general election, according to data analyzed by the Electoral Calculus, the Conservative Party would likely lose the vote by a large margin.
According to the model, the party has three seats in the Commons while Labour wins 565 of 650 seats.
Following Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget last Friday, the new prime minister Liz Truss has seen her party’s poll numbers plummet.
Markets were unconvinced by the government’s economic strategy, which included the largest tax reduction in 50 years as the value of the pound and UK equities fell dramatically.
Support for the Conservative administration has dramatically decreased as a result of worries about the economy, notably interest rates, inflation, and their effect on mortgages.
According to recent polls, Labour might gain a substantial majority of hundreds of seats. According to the Electoral Calculus, this margin could reach 480 seats.
Forrest Grandee Sir Charles Walker even said that if an election was conducted based on the most recent surveys, the Conservatives would be defeated as a political force.
In such a case, the Tories, according to him, would “end to exist as a political party,” he told Channel 4 News.
The party has not achieved a lead as large as Labour’s 33 points since Tony Blair led the party in the late 1990s.
The amount of 2019 Conservative supporters who indicate they will convert to Labour at the next election is a crucial factor in the large margin.
According to statistics, the proportion of such voters has increased from 8% to 17% in less than a week.
Just 37% of Conservative voters in 2019 said they would do the same if a vote were to be conducted right now.
A different Survation survey also had Labour ahead by 21 points, surpassing Blair’s 1997 landslide victory when he had a 13-point margin.
Earlier today, Kwasi Kwarteng made an attempt to reassure Tory MPs by reminding them that the party was “one team and needed to stay focused.” The Chancellor attributed the recent collapse in the UK economy on the “immense global market volatility.”
In response to Mr. Kwarteng’s mini-budget presentation last week and the ensuing economic crisis, Keir Starmer has requested an immediate recall of the legislature.
The Labour leader said that the Tories had “lost control” of the economy and urged them to change course on their economic agenda.