Polls: Britain point to electoral extinction of Sunak’s Conservative Party
Three British opinion polls released late on Saturday presented a bleak picture of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, with a poll by a competent institution warning the party was facing an electoral extinction in the Fourth of July election.
The polls come in the midst of the election campaign and after a week in which both the Conservatives (Tories) and Labor presented their platforms, and shortly before voters start receiving mail-in ballots.
Sunak surprised many in his party on May 22 by announcing early elections, contrary to widespread expectations that he would wait until later in the year to allow time to raise living standards after the highest inflation rate in 40 years.
A poll by market research firm Savanta showed that %46 of Britons support Keir Starmer’s Labor Party, up two points from the previous poll five days ago, while Conservative support fell four points to %21.
The poll was conducted from June 12 to 14 for the Sunday Telegraph.
Labor’s 25-point lead is the biggest since former Prime Minister Liz Truss took office.
Its plans to cut taxes had prompted investors to get rid of British government bonds, driving up interest rates and forcing the Bank of England to intervene.
Chris Hopkins, director of political research at Savanta, said, “Our research suggests that this election could be an electoral extinction for the Conservative Party”.
A separate Survey poll published by the Sunday Times predicted that the Conservatives would end up with just 72 seats in the 650-member House of Commons, the lowest level in their nearly 200-year history, while Labor would win 456 seats.
A third poll by Opinium for Sunday’s Observer newspaper, conducted June 12-14, showed Labor with %40 support, the Conservatives %23 and Reform %14, with the two larger parties falling behind smaller rivals.
