Sunak on course to lose seat, predicts poll

Good heavens. One of the many polls released today has suggested that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak could become the first sitting Prime Minister to lose their seat at a general election. The Savanta and Electoral Calculus poll for the Telegraph predicts that the Conservative party could be left with just 53 MPs – with the party leader not being one of them. Crikey.

The Telegraph’s MRP poll – which concluded the Tories are on course to face overwhelming defeat from a disillusioned electorate – surveyed approximately 18,000 people from 7-18 June. It concluded that Sunak is predicted to lose his Richmond seat to Sir Keir’s Labour party – although the survey suggests that the contest for the seat will be a close one. The poll projects a win for Starmer of over 500 seats at the election, with a majority of just under 400 and double Tony Blair’s in 1997. However the same poll suggests that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party will come away with zero seats while the Scottish nationalists may be left with only eight.