UK Elections: Savanta Poll Forecasts PM Sunak to Lose Seat

UkUK ElectionElections: PollsSavanta ForecastPoll DoomForecasts forPM Tories, Sunak Mayto Lose Seat

Published JUN 20 2024

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The Spin

It would be disingenuous to suggest that the Tories still have a chance to remain in power after next month’s election, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t try to stop the bleeding. Polls forecast varying levels of doom, and it’s important for the party’s morale, and potentially its survival, to have as representativestring a showingrepresentation in Parliament as possible. Sunak and his party need to keep up the fight and show how Conservative policies are working, even if it’s too late to win a majority of seats.

Spectator (UK)

Whole Labour’s ascension to power is all-but-practically inevitable, but securing as large a majority as possible remains a priority that will allow Keir Starmer to govern more quickly and effectively. AfterLabour has a lot to fix after a decade-plus of Tory rule, Labour has a lot on its agenda, and an overwhelming majority in parliamentParliament would allow the new ruling party to govern as it wantspleases. While the overall result is in hand, Labour must keep its foot on the gas and win the largest electoral mandate in British history.

The New Statesman

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