Senior Tory left red-faced after being shown Makerfield poll putting Conservatives in last place
A senior Tory MP was left humiliated on air when shown the results of a voting intention poll for the […]
A senior Tory MP was left humiliated on air when shown the results of a voting intention poll for the by-election in Makerfield which put the Conservatives in last place.
Appearing on Trevor Phillips’ show on Sky News, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp was presented with the findings from a Survation poll of 369 people set to vote in the Makerfield by-election on June 18th.
A graph of the poll showed the Labour Party on 43%, Reform on 40%, Restore Britain on 7%, Lib Dems on 4% and Greens on 3%. They are then followed by the Conservative Party on 2%.
Phillips said: “Before 2024, you used to come second between 20 and 30% of the vote.
“Now there are three parties that could describe themselves as being of the right, or centre right, and you – you’re the official opposition – you’re the least popular of the three!
“Reform, Restore, Conservatives.”
Pointing to the graph, he said: “Look, there are the Tories, down there at the bottom. What the heck happened?”
Philp replied: “By-elections are very strange things. You’ve got this weird dynamic where Andy Burnham is running as a Labour candidate to basically kick out Keir Starmer.
“So this by-election is idiosyncratic, it’s incredibly unusual.”
Phillips replied: “But people of the right aren’t going to you. They’re going to Reform, they’re going to Restore, which is a party almost nobody has even heard of.
“They are polling better than you are! What has happened to the Tories?”
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