Sunak denied claims of a disastrous Conservative defeat and stressed that he would “fight for every vote.” In light of the polls, Boris Johnson chimed in: “We give Labour a supermajority.”
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday rejected the idea that the Conservative Party’s defeat in Thursday’s general elections was inevitable, despite a minister predicting a union “avalanche” on Wednesday.
Sunak said in an interview with ITV that he continues “fight for every voteand insisted that the support of 130,000 voters “could make the difference” in preventing Labour from winning.
“TO Everyone who looks and thinks ‘oh, this is all an inevitable end’, it’s not”, he is stressed.
The Tory leader was reacting to what appeared to be an admission of defeat by Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride on Times Radio this morning, when he said “we are on the brink of probably the biggest landslide we have ever seen in this country”.
In its latest forecast before the election, pollster Survation said it was “99% confident” that Labour would win an unprecedented majority of 484 MPs out of 650 who will vote on Thursday.
This victory will be bigger than Tony Blair’s in 1997 and will leave the Conservative Party with 64 MPs, worst performance ever in a legislaturejust ahead of the Liberal Democrats (61).
UK: Polls predict Labour ‘supermajority’
According to the same study, the Reformist Party could be the third most voted party at the national level, but would only elect seven deputies due to the simple majority system.
Although some polls in recent weeks have indicated a decline in Labour’s voting intention and a recovery for the Conservatives, Labour’s lead remains around 20 percentage points.
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke for the first time on the campaign trail on Tuesday night at a rally in London to warn that “We are about to give Labour a supermajority“.
Johnson warned Conservative activists tempted to vote for other parties of the risk of “getting exactly the opposite of what they really want”.
Labour leader Keir Starmer has warned voters not to be complacent.
“My fear, right now, is that people will not feel the need to go out on the streets and vote for change. This is not over, we have to fight until ten o’clock tomorrow night,” he urged.
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But former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, a Sunak critic, accepted this, writing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper: “It is over and we must prepare for reality and the frustration of the opposition.”
Six weeks after the surprise call for legislative elections, scheduled for the end of the year, Wednesday is the last day of the electoral campaign before the vote on Thursday, which will take place between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.
Source: Observadora
