18 Cabinet ministers heading in the right direction to lose seats in Tory election wipeout – record
Top Tories Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt and Gillian Keegan face being ousted in an electoral wipeout, a mega-poll has discovered.
A whopping 18 Cabinet ministers are set to lose their seats because the Conservatives may go all the way down to as few as 80 MPs. The bombshell survey of 18,000 individuals forecasts that Rishi Sunak is heading in the right direction to steer the occasion to its worst end in historical past.
The ballot by Find Out Now and Electoral Calculus suggests Cabinet casualties would come with Jeremy Hunt, Mel Stride, Claire Coutinho, Victoria Pentis, John Glen, Johnny Mercer and Simon Hart.
Current ministers who’re prone to hold their seats – and would possibly contest the subsequent Conservative management contest – are James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch, Tom Tugendhat, and Michael Gove.
According to the ballot, Keir Stamer is heading for a Labour landslide with an unprecedented majority of 254 seats. This can be an excellent larger victory than Tony Blair’s historic win in 1997. According to the ballot, Labour has 42% assist giving it a 20 level lead over the Conservatives on 22%.
Over the previous three weeks, the pollsters surveyed 18,151 individuals – which is 9 instances as many as a typical ballot. The MRP (multi-level regression and post-stratification) methodology – that efficiently forecast the 2017 and 2019 elections – was then used to mission what this might imply in particular person constituencies.
The outcomes counsel Labour is about to select up 452 seats. The Tories would lose 285 of the 265 seats they bought in 2019, leaving them with simply 80. The Lib Dems are heading in the right direction for a comeback that will see them return as much as 53 seats. The SNP are forecast to stoop barely to 40 seats, whereas the Greens would get two.
Martin Baxter, founding father of Electoral Calculus, stated: “The public seem even more disenchanted with the Conservatives under Rishi Sunak than they were with John Major in 1997. A Labour landslide looks increasingly likely, and Labour voters want nationalisation, increased public spending and higher taxes. The next election could have a seismic impact on British politics as the recent Conservative era crashes to a close.”
Find Out Now interviewed 18,151 adults in Britain on-line between January 24 and February 12.
List of projected Cabinet casualties
According to the ballot, 18 ministers who presently sit across the Cabinet desk may lose their seats.
Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt, Claire Coutinho, Mel Stride, Gillian Keegan, Mark Harper, David T Davies, Victoria Prentis, John Glen, Esther McVey, Andrew Mitchell and Johnny Mercer are heading in the right direction to be defeated by Labour.
Jeremy Hunt, Alex Chalk, Michelle Donelan, Lucy Frazer and Michael Tomlinson are heading in the right direction to be defeated by the Liberal Democrats.
Simon Hart is heading in the right direction to be defeated by Plaid Cymru.
In addition Alister Jack’s Dumfries and Galloway constituency is about to be snatched by the SNP, though he has already introduced he’ll stand down on the election.
Source: Find Out Now/Electoral Calculus.
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