Poll predicts landslide victory for UK's opposition Labour next year
A new poll says Britain's Labour Party is on course to win a landslide victory at the national election due next year.
The opinion poll published on Saturday predicted a range of 402-437 seats for Labour and 132-169 seats for the Conservatives party of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
At the last national election in 2019, the Conservatives won 365 seats and Labour 203.
The Tories would take just 149 seats and the Lib Dems 23, says the Survation poll, carried out for campaign group 38 Degrees and published by the Observer newspaper.
According to the Observer, under the projected results, 12 of Sunak's cabinet ministers, including Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, faced losing their seats.
The polling questioned more than 11,000 voters between Sept. 11-25 and then used a model to generate constituency-by-constituency results.
The analysis also suggests that the cost of living and the state of the National Health Service (NHS) continue to be the clear priorities for voters.
In every single constituency, these two factors were most important to voters, the poll suggests.
Matthew McGregor, chief executive of 38 Degrees — the movement of more than two million people across the UK – said the findings suggested voters were “crying out for change” and warned Labour against being overly cautious.
“With the spotlight this week on the Labour Party’s conference pledges, it’s clear what voters will be looking for: real guarantees of action to help those most in need and bring the dual cost of living and NHS crises under control for all of us,” he said.
“If they can’t deliver that, there’s no promise these polling results will hold.”
Labour promises to "get Britain's future back" as the party meets for its annual conference in Liverpool on Saturday.
This year's annual conferences are likely to be the last before next year's expected general election.
Speaking during the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Sunday, Prime Minister Sunak, however, said he will not be making an announcement about a general election any time soon.
Sunak said that a general election is “not what the country wants,” since he is “just getting on” with the job.
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