“It’s time for a change,” reads the editorial in The Sun newspaper, abandoning the Conservative Party, which he supported in the last four elections, due to internal wars and scandals.
The Labour Party received support from the traditionally pro-conservative tabloid on Wednesday Sunand the last poll before Thursday’s election pointed to a historic victory for Keir Starmer, who warned of the risk of complacency.
“Change doesn’t happen unless you vote for it. Nothing is decided, not a single vote has been won or lost and all votes are open.”Starmer repeated in the final days of the campaign.
Labour’s 20-point lead in voting intentions for months on end leaves little room for suspense ahead of Thursday’s vote after a lackluster campaign focused on the economy, healthcare and immigration.
A new survey by YouGov published on Wednesdayexpects Labour to win 431 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, which would be the highest figure in the party’s history, including the 419 won by Tony Blair in 1997.
In contrast, the Conservative Party’s parliamentary group will go from the 365 MPs it elected in 2019 to 102.
According to the same survey, the Scottish National Party (SNP) will win 18 seats, leaving the Liberal Democrats (72) in third place, the Reform Party will win three seats and the Greens two.
“It is time for a change,” reads the newspaper’s editorial Sunleaving the Conservative Party, which he supported in the last four elections, due to internal wars and scandals that “betrayed the trust of the people.”
Although the print press has lost much of its influence, the tabloid risked appearing out of step with its readers if it did not side with what was shaping up to be a historic Labour victory.
The paper thus joins other right-wing and centre-right publications that have called for a vote for Labour, in particular the economic newspaper Financial time, Magazine The Economist and the Sunday time, the Sunday edition of the newspaper The timeswho has not yet declared who he supports.
oh Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Sunday express maintained support for the conservatives.
This is the latest setback in an unfavourable campaign for Prime Minister and Conservative leader Rishi Sunak.which got off to an inauspicious start when he was drenched by rain while announcing an election in Downing Street on 22 May.
Two weeks later, he was forced to apologise for returning early and missing part of the celebrations in France marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, skipping a ceremony alongside US President Joe Biden and French President Emanuel Macron.
The campaign was subsequently marred by an investigation by the regulator into several Conservatives close to Sunak on suspicion of having used insider information to bet on the election date before it was announced.
Sunak’s strategy, which invoked falling inflation and economic growth as signs his government was working toward an early election, was also undermined by the candidacy of Nigel Farage for the Reform Party.
The radical right-wing party carried out a campaign aimed at conservatives (conservatives) with criticism of high immigration.
In the final two days of the campaign, Sunak insisted that the outcome of this election was not “inevitable” and said on Wednesday that he had a “clear conscience”.
“As long as I can look in the mirror and know that I’m working as hard as I can, doing what I think is right for the country, that’s how I can get through this situation and that’s what I think I’m doing,” he said.
Source: Observadora
