Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
claim that the local election results show the UK is heading for a hung parliament is “for the birds”, according to a top pollster.are as popular as “a cup of cold sick” after the prime minister insisted there was still all to play for in the general election.Sunak based his comments on analysis of last week’s local election results, in which the Tories lost nearly 500 seats, by polling expert Michael Thrasher.
He put Labour’s national lead over the Conservatives is just seven points, well short of what opinion polls have been saying for months. However, others pointed out that Thrasher’s forecast was based on the assumption that Scotland - where there were no local elections last week - would vote the same way it did in 2019, when Labour won just one seat.The PM said: “These results suggest we are heading for a hung parliament with Labour as the largest party. Keir Starmer propped up in Downing Street by the SNP, Liberal Democrats and the Greens would be a disaster for Britain.
“And finally, you look at Keir Starmer, and Keir Starmer isn’t particularly popular, but ... if you look at how people rate Keir Starmer as best possible candidate for being prime minister with Rishi Sunak, he’s got double the score of Rishi Sunak.”Most people, they aren’t always sure exactly what Labour is, but they know that they don’t like the Conservatives.the crumb of comfort is Keir Starmer’s personal ratings and the fact that people aren’t particularly enamoured with Labour.
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