Two days into the election campaign, and the polls are already jaw-dropping. The latest You Gov has the Tories on 48 percent, 24 points ahead of Labour—and that’s before the Tory attack machine has gone to work on Jeremy Corbyn.
Now, there is a chance that the Tory lead is being exaggerated by the methodological changes that the pollsters made after underestimating the Tories in 2015. But talk to pretty much any MP on either side and they’ll say that Theresa May is remarkably popular and Jeremy Corbyn the opposite.
There are, as I say in the cover this week, risks to this early election for Theresa May. But two great prizes are within her—and the Tories’—grasp. First, they have a chance to reunite the right. Not since 1992 have the Tories polled more than 40 percent in a general election.
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