A Conservative minister has said Labour is heading towards “the largest majority this country has ever seen”.
Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride not only appeared to concede the election to Labour a day before voting begins but said they would gain a record number of seats.
He told Sky News: “It appears, if the polls are right, that we’re heading towards the largest majority that this country has ever seen, much greater than even 1997’s landslide.”
Mr Stride was talking after other leading Conservatives, including Rishi Sunak, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, have warned of Labour gaining so many seats it would have a “supermajority”.
A Survation MRP poll released on Tuesday put Labour on course for a landslide victory, winning 484 of the 650 seats up for grabs, many more than the 418 won by Tony Blair in 1997.
It predicted the Conservatives would win just 64 seats - the fewest since the party was founded in 1834.
So excited for our new red tory government
I see it like this. We are infinitely more likely to get left-wing policies from a centralist government, than left-wing policies from an ultra-nationalist right wing government.
So saying they’re all the same is a bit disingenuous. Yes Labour are not what they used to be, but then again neither of the Tories, and that is really the problem we need to deal with right now.