Sunak goes to vote with Tories at record poll low
Evening Standard|July 04, 2024
SIR Keir Starmer is set to enter No10 as Prime Minister tomorrow, according to the final poll of the election campaign by Ipsos which showed Rishi Sunak’s Tories flatlining on a record low of 19 per cent.
Nicholas Cecil
Sunak goes to vote with Tories at record poll low

The exclusive survey for the Evening Standard revealed nearly three in 10 voters say they may still change their mind, but even if they did the findings suggest it would not stop a Labour victory. The poll showed Labour falling five points but still with an 18-point lead over the Conservatives, according to fieldwork which ended last night.

Labour was on 37 per cent, down five points on last week. The Tories were unchanged on 19 per cent, the lowest share of the vote recorded by Ipsos since the late Seventies for the party.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK was on 15 per cent, gnawing into the Tory vote, having surged after his U-turn to take over as party leader rather than head to America to campaign for Donald Trump. The Liberal Democrats were on 11 per cent, unchanged, and Green Party nine per cent, up two points.

Sir Keir, who went with his wife Victoria early this morning to vote at a polling station in Willingham Close in the Holborn and St Pancras constituency, has seen a big drop in Britons who believe he would make the most capable Prime Minister, on 36 per cent, down from 46 per cent last week. But he still had a 15-point lead over Rishi Sunak, who was stuck on 21 per cent.

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