Tory support at its highest since May 2008
The Conservatives have surged to their highest polling lead since May 2008 in the first full poll completed since Theresa May announced the general election.
On headline voting intention, 48 per cent of respondents said they would back the Conservatives if an election were held tomorrow, an increase of four percentage points. Just 24 per cent expressed said they would vote Labour.
According to Electoral Calculus, this would give the Conservatives a majority of up to 190 — even larger than Labour’s 1997 landslide.
Theresa May also hit her highest ever personal approval rating in the YouGov/Times poll, with 54 saying she would make the best prime minister. Just 15 per cent said the same of Jeremy Corbyn, while 31 per cent don’t know.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of the public (63 per cent) now expect a Conservative majority. Four per cent overall predict a Labour majority, including just 12 per cent of Labour’s own voters.
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13 Responses to “First general election poll promises vast Conservative majority”
Fred
The Labour Party is now the party of communists, Socialist Workers, Class War types, ageing militant trade unionists, university academics, students and young, London-based ‘political bloggers’. Hardly any moderate working people support it.
Ask yourself this question. Can you really imagine a plumber in Basildon going for a party that quotes Chairman Mao in parliament and calls for IRA terrorists to be given medals? These are the people that decide elections. And the worst thing is that the brand of Labour is now contaminated, so much so that it’s going to take at least a decade to decontaminate it, such that moderates like myself will even consider coming back.
As an electoral force Labour is finished, for many years.
James Cooper
Highlight the lies told by Theresa May’s Government & the corrupt media who repeat these lies and make up stories to fuel support for her Government. Also remind people that governments shouldn’t be allowed to operate as a dictatorship. I am constantly annoyed by the term “mandate” when all Governments in my lifetime have had more people vote against them (for other Parties) than for them. They all forget this and constantly avoid true reform that would give all people a true voice.
Joe Martinez
Didn’t plumbers in Basildon give us Thatcher? For those of you nostalgic for the days of real Tories, starving pensioners, kicking the poor and having an army of police arresting strikers.
Pete jobes
How the actual fuck?
JOHN BRADLEY
where are these Polls being held?..why havent I or anyone I know been invited to take part in these Polls that the torys are supposed to be ahead in? I put it to whoever you are that you are a blatant liar