If this swing was replicated nationwide at the next election, Labour would be down to 100 MPs

23 May 2008, 12:00am

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James Forsyth

If this swing was replicated nationwide at the next election, Labour would be down to 100 MPs
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John Curtice has just crunched the numbers for the BBC and found that if this swing happened across the country at the next election, there would be 497 Tory MPs and only 100 Labour ones. Clearly, this isn’t going to happen. But it will concentrate the minds of Labour backbenchers.