Conservatives would maintain simply three out of 88 battleground seats if election held now, ballot suggests

The Conservative get together would solely maintain three of its 88 battleground seats within the UK had been an election to happen tomorrow, stark new polling suggests.

In a serious blow to the get together, the prime minister’s personal seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip would doubtless fall to Labour management, with present outcomes suggesting a 5 level Labour lead over the Conservatives.

In accordance with newest YouGov modelling, of the 88 seats which Boris Johnson’s get together both received from Labour in 2019 or at the moment maintain with a slim majority, the Tories would solely handle to retain its management of Ashfield, Bassetlaw, and Dudley North.

It follows a dire consequence for Mr Johnson on this yr’s native election, which noticed voters transfer towards the Conservatives within the PM’s seat – as a substitute electing three Labour councillors throughout 21 seats in eight wards.

With the Sue Grey report, value of residing disaster, Northern Eire protocol and snowballing allegations of sexual and monetary misconduct looming massive over the federal government, the image appears much more bleak for the Tories in Wales.

Of the seats classed by YouGov as battleground, all can be misplaced, together with one to Plaid Cymru in Ynys Mon. The remaining eight constituencies embrace the previous Labour strongholds of Wrexham, Bridgend, and Delyn.

The ballot additionally suggests Wakefield would return to Labour arms forward of the upcoming by-election on 23 June, triggered by the resignation of disgraced Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan, who was lately charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.

Had been an election held tomorrow, Labour would even be more likely to take again management of plenty of its former ‘Purple Wall’ seats, together with Burnley, Blyth Valley, Leigh, and Stoke-on-Trent North.

YouGov additionally discovered each seat in London and the South beneath the ‘battleground’ definition would fall to Labour, together with Iain Duncan-Smith’s constituency of Chingford and Woodford Inexperienced and Steve Baker’s seat in Wycombe.

It comes after Might’s native election noticed the important thing Tory councils of Wandsworth – apparently Margaret Thatcher’s favorite – and Westminster, Tory because it was created in 1964, fall into Labour arms.

On the time, chief of the opposition Sir Keir Starmer declared the outcomes as a serious “turning level” for his get together.

However the ballot did discover that the Tory vote would maintain up higher usually in battleground constituencies within the North East and East Midlands (-11 factors) than it does within the South (-14 factors) or East of England (-13 factors), with every of the three Conservative holds beneath this modelling coming within the Midlands.

Battleground constituencies had been outlined as ones had been the Conservatives had both received from Labour in 2019, or at the moment maintain with a majority of lower than 15 factors over Labour.

YouGov surveyed 15,045 voters throughout England between 19-27 Might, and a pair of,086 voters in Wales between 28 April and 27 Might.