Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn would become prime minister and his party would take over the House of Commons, dealing a crushing blow to the May government should a snap election be held now.
An Electoral Calculus poll commissioned by the Sunday Telegraph has revealed that the Conservatives would be upstaged by Corbyn and Co. in the event of a general election. The incumbent PM Theresa May’s party is set to lose 59 seats in the legislature, which would leave it with 259 seats. The Labour Party is, on the other hand, projected to overtake the Tories by claiming 296 seats.
President of the British Polling Council Professor Sir John Curtice, cited in the report, said that the Tories’ bleak election prospects are linked to the growing frustration over May’s repeated failure to deliver Brexit.
Electoral Calculus founder Martin Baxter said that May might now realize that the underlying cause behind David Cameron’s decision to carry out a referendum on leaving the EU in the first place was his desire to stem the rise of pro-Brexit parties.
“It wasn’t to placate his own Euroskeptic MPs, instead it was to stop Conservative voters defecting to pro-Brexit parties,”he argued.
The results of the poll draw on a survey of 8,561 people conducted between April 2 and April 11.