Following the party’s crushing defeat in council and mayoral elections, Rishi Sunak has conceded that the Tories may not win the general election.
The Prime Minister claimed Britain is heading for a hung parliament when he sends the country to the polls, as he warned about the ‘disaster’ of a Labour-led coalition.
A new chapter in the Tory civil war has begun after a disastrous round of local elections saw the Conservatives lose over 500 seats and all but one elected mayor.
Additionally, Mr Sunak witnessed the Tories fall to Labour in the Blackpool South parliamentary by-election, with his party only just defeating Reform UK, which came in third.
The PM conceded it had been ‘bitterly disappointing’ for his party but seized on an analysis of council results that suggested Labour would miss out on a House of Commons majority.
‘These results suggest we are heading for a hung parliament with Labour as the largest party,’ he told The Times.
‘Keir Starmer propped up in Downing Street by the SNP, Liberal Democrats and the Greens would be a disaster for Britain.
‘The country doesn’t need more political horse-trading, but action. We are the only party that has a plan to deliver on the priorities of the people.’
Professor Michael Thrasher, a leading elections expert, said analysis of the results of Thursday’s council contest showed Labour as the largest party in Westminster but short of an overall majority.
These vote results were projected into a national estimate for Sky News based on an analysis of two million local wards, and Labour led the Tories by nine percentage points.
The analysis suggested Labour would be left 32 seats short of a majority at a general election.
But the study raised eyebrows as it flew in the face of the massive lead Labour has in almost all Westminster voting intention polls.
It was pointed out that people often vote differently in local and national elections, and there were no council contests in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland on Thursday.
The PM’s assertion that a hung Parliament is likely in Britain was reiterated by Health Minister Maria Caulfield.
She also claimed Tory voters who stayed at home for last week’s local elections would back the government at the general election.
‘It’s always difficult when you’ve been in government, and voters can send a message to a party in government that they’re unhappy about certain things with the safe knowledge that they still have a Conservative government in control,’ she told Sky News.
‘It’s very different come a general election, where they really do have to make a choice.
‘If you look at Blackpool South, for example, the vast majority of our voters that voted for us in 2019 stayed at home, they didn’t switch to Labour.
‘They didn’t switch to Reform. They stayed at home and that shows that they haven’t really been tempted by other parties.’
Labour sought to dispel suggestions it would consider a coalition with the SNP after the general election.
They’ve had thirteen years and a large majority to implement the Tory plan, but instead, they’ve wasted both time and taxpayers’ money.
The national debt in the UK is now forecast to rise to almost £2.8 trillion next year. The UK national debt grows at a rate of £5,170 million per second, and the Tories claim to be the party of economic responsibility!
I mention this to the younger generation and they have no idea what I’m talking about. It’s like their brains turn to mush and they look like they’re having a meltdown. The reason why, is because our government want our children to be mathematically illiterate, and they have taken a generation of children and made them into zombies, who have no idea what’s going on in the country, let alone the world!
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