UK’s May sees lead slip further, still set for majority – Opinium poll

If they are right then she may be the most successful Conservative leader in nearly 50 years.

She added: “My party is the only party that is going to respect the will of the British people, get on with the job and deliver a successful Brexit”.

Friday’s front page of the Daily Telegraph also featured an exposé of Labour’s electioneering tactics, where the paper argued that the Labour campaign is being led by fake social media accounts.

A Labour victory would signal a political natural disaster in the U.K. The party is running on its most unabashed Socialist manifesto in over 30 years, promising to re-nationalize the country’s railroads and utilities, as well as to raise taxes on business and on the wealthy. That means that 30 to 40 seats where the result would normally be safe are now in doubt.

“I’ve never voted for the Lib Dems in my life, but I will this time”, the computer engineer and staunch Europhile told AFP in the City, London’s business hub. This number has surprised Tory strategists.

Our poll puts the Tories on 45 per cent, down one from last week, and Labour up two to 34 per cent.

Labour has gained on the Tories in the polls recently.

Although previous polls conducted in the early stages of campaigning indicated that May was on course for a landslide with a majority of up to 150 seats, the new polls depicted rather a bleak prospect for the Conservatives.

She warned of the risk of voters backing Labour and allowing Mr Corbyn to form a minority government with the support of the SNP.

However the findings contrast sharply with a ComRes poll for the Independent and Sunday Mirror which still shows the Conservatives with a healthy 12 point advantage.

Many people are sceptical about polls, and rightly so.

The markets are surprisingly calm about the odds shortening for a Labour win.

Quizzed on his party’s record on anti-Semitism, Mr Corbyn claimed his party did not tolerate it and had suspended members including Ken Livingstone. In the wake of the news the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, sprung a surprise announcement: that he would attend a televised BBC debate with the other main party leaders.

The Labour leader said it was “staggering” that pensioners had not been told at what level social care costs would be capped or how many elderly people would lose the winter fuel payment, worth up to £300.

The fact that dozens of seats are not behaving the way they were expected to will undoubtedly make uncomfortable reading for Prime Minister Theresa May.

Suddenly we are back to where we were when May called the election two months ago: it feels like a single issue vote.

There was slightly better news for May from a Panelbase poll which put her party 8 points ahead of Labour, but that still meant the Conservatives’ advantage had nearly halved in a week.

“Theresa May is right at the centre of the campaign strategy, but Theresa May is not seen as particularly warm or someone voters can identify with”.

But despite starting off strongly ahead in polls, the Conservative Party has been losing ground in recent days.