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Labour forecast to win landslide of over 400 seats, as YouGov poll predicts Tory wipeout at election (news.sky.com)

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Labour could be swept into power with a landslide of more than 400 seats at the next general election, according to the latest YouGov mega poll.

The survey of 18,000 people predicts Sir Keir Starmer's party will win a parliamentary majority of 154 - almost double what the Conservatives achieved with Boris Johnson in 2019.

The poll forecasts Labour will win 403 seats, a gain of 201, while the Tories will crash to just 155 seats - a loss of 210.

If correct, the result would be a worse defeat for the Conservatives than under Sir John Major in 1997, when the rise of Sir Tony Blair's New Labour left them with just 165 MPs.

Key Conservatives projected to lose their seats include Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, cabinet ministers Grant Shapps and Penny Mordaunt and former party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith.

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[–] K3zi4@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back when Boris resigned and the headlines said that the Tories would return single digit seats in a full wipeout, I made a £100 bet with a friend who was excited by the news that the Tories would win the next election regardless. I am that confident in the UK population's obsession with shooting themselves in both feet. Hell I might even go and raise the bet.

[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty much. Otherwise we'd have AV and would have remained in the EU.