{"id":73817,"date":"2024-06-15T18:21:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/15\/fresh-poll-predicts-tories-will-win-just-72-seats-in-next-parliament\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T18:21:10","slug":"fresh-poll-predicts-tories-will-win-just-72-seats-in-next-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/15\/fresh-poll-predicts-tories-will-win-just-72-seats-in-next-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh poll predicts Tories will win just 72 seats in next parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/06\/1920x1080\/skynews-rishi-sunak-pm-craig-williams_6580805.jpg?20240613165645&amp;resize=1920,1080&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Fresh poll predicts Tories will win just 72 seats in next parliament\" title=\"Fresh poll predicts Tories will win just 72 seats in next parliament\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Two polls published today spell bad news for Rishi Sunak, with one showing a drop of four points and the other that his party is on course to pick up just 72 seats.<\/p>\n<p>A poll by Savanta for The Daily Telegraph showed the Tories are down four points to just 21% of the vote &#8211; the lowest by that pollster since the dying days of Theresa May&#8217;s premiership in early 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a boost for Nigel Farage, the poll showed Reform UK up three points with 13% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/general-election-2024-sunak-starmer-conservatives-labour-davey-lib-dem-12593360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Election latest: Starmer avoids saying where funding for NHS reform will come from<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A separate Survation poll for Best for Britain, published by The Times, predicted the Tories would win just 72 seats in the next parliament, compared with 456 for Labour.<\/p>\n<p>The results would give Labour a majority of 262 seats &#8211; far surpassing the landslide Labour achieved under Sir Tony Blair in 1997 &#8211; while the Liberal Democrats would pick up 56 seats, Reform seven and the Greens one seat.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after a YouGov poll on Thursday night put Nigel Farage&#8217;s party on 19% of the vote, compared with 18% for the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The development prompted Mr Farage to declare Reform as the &#8220;opposition to Labour&#8221; going into the election.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/fresh-poll-predicts-tories-will-win-just-72-seats-in-next-parliament-13153645\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two polls published today spell bad news for Rishi Sunak, with one showing a drop of four points and the other that his party is on course to pick up just 72 seats. 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