Public support for the ruling UK Conservative Party has plummeted to its lowest level in almost two decades, with the party dropping 13 percent in polls in just one month and losing many of its voters to the recently emerged Brexit Party, a poll, carried out for the Evening Standard newspaper, showed on Thursday.
If the general election were held in the United Kingdom right now, only 25 percent of the respondents would vote for the Conservatives, compared to 38 percent in March, which is the party’s worst result in 17 years, the outlet reported, citing the results of the poll.
Meanwhile, the support for the Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, skyrocketed from 1 percent in March to 16 percent in May, the poll showed. Around a fifth of voters who supported the Conservatives in the 2017 election have shifted toward Farage’s party, the Evening Standard reported.