Only 10% of voters under 50 would support Conservatives at next election, YouGov poll result shows

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Only 10 per cent of voters under the age of 50 would vote Conservative within the next common election, in accordance with a brand new poll.

The YouGov survey of greater than 2,000 adults discovered solely 20 per cent mentioned they would vote for Rishi Sunak’s get together, whereas fewer than half (49 per cent) of those that again the Tories in 2019 intend to support the, once more.

But the poll lays naked simply how unpopular the get together is with younger individuals, with simply 4 per cent of these aged between 18 and 25 saying they intend to vote Conservative, and solely 12 per cent of 25-49 12 months olds. It additionally shows support for the Conservatives is at its lowest stage since Liz Truss’ closing days as prime minister.

It comes after a testing week for the prime minister, who staved off a serious rebel over his flagship Rwanda coverage.

The Rwanda invoice handed its third studying on Wednesday night time after days of Tory infighting, as 60 Conservatives backed insurgent amendments to the federal government invoice.

Only 11 Conservative MPs voted towards the federal government at third studying, however the highly-publicised battle has uncovered deep divisions within the Conservative get together over the laws and Mr Sunak’s management.

Mr Sunak was additionally going through additional criticism on Monday when the Telegraph printed a YouGov survey, comissioned by a quantity of Tory donors led by Lord Frost, which confirmed the Conservatives had been on monitor for a 1997-style electoral wipe out, set to retain as few as 169 seats.

Lord Frost, who referred to as for a brand new Conservative chief again in December, toutdated the Telegraph that the one option to reverse the pattern was to be “as tough as it takes” on immigration, reverse tax will increase and do a U-turn on renewable power measures.

The newest survery has additionally revealed that right-wing get together Reform UK has hit its highest ever stage of support at 12 per cent, and that one in 4 (25 per cent) of 2019 Conservative voters now say they plan to vote for the challenger get together.

Labour are additionally set to make positive factors, giving them a lead of 27-points – the most important since Mr Sunak turned prime minister.

This morning, Mr Sunak gave a press convention to assuage fears across the progress of the immigration invoice and disunity in his get together.

He mentioned: “The House of Commons has spoken. The Conservative party has come together. The Rwanda bill has passed. It’s now for the Lords to pass this bill too. This is an urgent national priority.”

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey mentioned has mentioned that as a substitute of tackling financial points, “Rishi Sunak’s government is too busy fighting over an unworkable and expensive policy that is destined to fail.”

“It just confirms how desperately out of touch and out of ideas this Conservative government is. We urgently need a general election so we can finally put an end to this cycle of Conservative chaos and get on with tackling the huge challenges facing us all,” he mentioned.