Bombshell poll shows Rishi Sunak on course to hold just 80 Tory seats

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The Tories are going through an electoral wipeout that would depart them with just 80 seats, the bottom ever whole for the Conservative Party, a bombshell new poll shows.

Rishi Sunak is on course to lose greater than three quarters of the Tories’ seats, the survey of 18,000 voters suggests.

As properly as spelling near-wipeout for the Conservatives, the shock poll shows seventeen ministers are set to lose their seats, together with Jeremy Hunt, Grant Shapps, Penny (*80*), Gillian Keegan and Mel Stride.

The poll, by Find Out Now and Electoral Calculus, confirmed Sir Keir Starmer on course to win an excellent greater landslide than Sir Tony Blair in 1997, with a majority of 254.

And the survey, reported by The Daily Mirror, confirmed Labour’s assist amongst voters at 42 per cent, with a 20-point lead over the Tories on 20 per cent.

The survey was carried out utilizing the MRP (multilevel regression and poststratification) technique that efficiently forecast the 2017 and 2019 elections.

It discovered voters high considerations have been well being, the financial system and immigration, whereas the most well-liked insurance policies included constructing extra properties and nationalising utility companies.

In whole, Labour would win 452 seats, 249 greater than at the moment, with the Conservatives dropping 285 seats to hold just 80.

The Liberal Democrats and Green Party are additionally set to make features, whereas the poll instructed the SNP might lose eight seats to a resurgent Scottish Labour.

The poll will provide some much-needed consolation for Sir Keir after he confronted two of probably the most tough weeks of his management of the Labour Party to this point.

He has been dogged by claims that he flip-flops on key selections after the fudged announcement that he was dropping Labour’s key £28bn per yr inexperienced spending pledge.

Labour as an alternative changed the measure with plans to spend £23.7 billion over the course of the following parliament.

He has additionally been rocked by an antisemitism scandal after Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali was recorded making antisemitic remarks.

After a few of Mr Ali’s remarks, claiming Israel had allowed the October 7 Hamas terror assaults to go forward, Sir Keir sought to stand by the Labour candidate.

But, after going through a media storm, and additional remarks being made public, Sir Keir dropped his assist for Mr Ali.

Another Labour candidate was then accused of antisemitism for being recorded on the identical assembly showing to refer to “f***ing Israel” and appeared to say that Britons who volunteer to combat for the Israel Defense Forces “should be locked up”.

It all got here as a separate poll by Savanta confirmed Labour’s lead over the Tories falling to its lowest since final June.