Downbeat top Tories including Cruella Braverman threw in the towel last night on the eve of a predicted crushing defeat for the embattled party.
The glum former home secretary warned them to “read the writing on the wall” and “prepare for the reality and frustration of opposition”.
Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride also said Labour are “heading for an extraordinary landslide on a scale that has probably never, ever been seen in this country before.”
Crestfallen Cruella said victory should no longer be the goal for the Tories.
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She said: “Thursday’s vote is now all about forming a strong enough opposition.”
The politician, who was sacked twice as home secretary, insisted neither she, nor Bozo Johnson, nor Lettuce Liz Truss were to blame for the likely trouncing.
She said her party’s failure to cut immigration and stop “woke” policies had divided the right and boosted Nigel Garage’s Reform party.
Braverman said the Tories now need “a searingly honest post-match analysis” which would “decide whether our party continues to exist at all.”
Rishi “Biggles” Sunak is petrified of becoming the first PM in history to be unseated.
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The stressed PM confided his worries to his inner circle on Tuesday before a Tory rally.
One said: “He is genuinely fearful of a defeat in Richmond. The risk that it could be tight has hit him hard. He’s rattled – he can’t quite believe it’s coming so close.”
But outwardly the PM vowed he was not giving up yet.
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Asked if a defeat would spell the death of the Tory Party, he said: “No one’s voted. Lots of people haven’t made up their minds.”
Polls suggest Sir Keir Starmer is set for a titanic victory in tomorrow’s vote.
Forecasts predict his party will secure more seats than it did in 1997.
Survation pollsters quizzed 34,558 respondents online and by phone.
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It said a hefty Labour triumph of more than 418 seats is “99% certain”.
That is the number the party took under Tony Blair’s leadership 27 years ago.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, defence secretary Grant Shapps and veterans minister Johnny Mercer are set to lose their seats, according to More In Common’s MRP poll.
YouGov’s final poll of the election projected an historic result, with both a record high number of seats for Labour and a record low number of seats for the Tories.
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