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.
And, remarkably, Labour’s main plan seems to have been to keep their head down and let the Tories shoot themselves in the arse, repeatedly.
Labour have hit back at this and earlier claims about a supermajority (which isn’t even a thing here) as a form of voter suppression. So keep pushing all the way to the finish line.
If I was a conservative voter, I’m a bit unclear about why I’m supposed to be more scared of Labour winning by a lot, any more than I would be by Labour just winning at all.
The message from the conservatives seems to be that majorities are bad and super majorities are super bad. Conveniently forgetting they had an 80 seat majority until they biffed it up.
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.
Vote.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
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.
During a campaign rally on Tuesday at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London, Mr Sunak said: "Now, it suits lots of people to say that the result of this election is a foregone conclusion but I know that it is not.
Mr Johnson told the crowd of Conservative Party supporters Sir Keir Starmer would try to “usher in the most left-wing Labour government since the war”.
He urged people who want “higher taxes next week, next year” and “uncontrolled immigration and mandatory wokery, and pointless kowtowing to Brussels” to vote Labour.
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