A day before voting begins, Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride not only gave the impression that Labour would win the election, but also predicted that they would win a record number of seats.He stated to News: “It appears, if the polls are right, that we’re heading towards the largest majority that this country has ever seen, much greater than even 1997’s landslide.”
Mr. Stride was speaking following the warnings of several prominent Conservatives, including David Cameron, Boris Johnson, and Rishi Sunak, about Labour capturing so many seats that it would have a “supermajority.”.
With 484 of the 650 votes in a Survation MRP survey released on Tuesday, Labour was headed for a landslide victory.
It projected that the Conservatives would secure a mere 64 seats, the lowest number since the party’s establishment in 1834.
According to Mr. Stride, the Tories’ current duty was to ensure that Labour was held accountable.
He continued, “The way you accomplish that is by having enough Conservative Members of Parliament there to hold it accountable.”
And tomorrow, that is also a crucial matter.
According to Labour’s Pat McFadden, Mr. Stride’s decision to “call the outcome of the election before people have gone to the polls” was “disrespectful to the electorate”.
