Great Britain votes on July 4. (File)
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Stop Labor’s “supermajority” is the latest message British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is trying to drive home on Wednesday, the final day of campaigning before election day on Thursday, as most Conservative incumbents are close to conceding defeat in the general election. election.
“This is what unites us. We must stop the Labor supermajority from raising your taxes. The only way to do that is to vote Conservative tomorrow,” 44-year-old Rishi Sunak said on social media as he focused on rallying support in the final few hours of the campaign trail.
With his party trailing far behind the Keir Starmer-led Labor Party, the strategy of the British Indian leader and his team appears to be to recruit their traditional voters to ensure a strong enough turnout at the polls on Thursday and close the gap of their to reduce the generally expected defeat. following Tory victories at the last three elections.
“I fully agree that where the polls are at the moment means that tomorrow is likely to see the biggest landslide Labor majority – the biggest majority this country has ever seen. Much bigger than in 1997,” Mel Stride, Rishi Sunak’s Work and Pensions Secretary, told the paper. BBC.
‘I have accepted that where the polls are at the moment… that therefore we will very likely be in a situation tomorrow where [Labour has] the largest majority any party has ever achieved,” he said, effectively conceding his party’s defeat.
It is seen as a fear tactic to galvanize Tory voters into action in the hope of keeping the Labor majority below the 179 seats won by former Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1997 under the Labor Party leadership.
“Thursday’s vote is now all about building a strong enough opposition. You have to read the writing on the wall: it is over and we have to prepare for the reality and frustration of the opposition,” said Suella Braverman, who was dismissed as Interior Minister by Rishi. Sunak, told ‘The Telegraph’.
Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson – not exactly a close ally of Rishi Sunak since the partygate scandal of law-breaking parties during the COVID pandemic – was also put forward by the party at a campaign event in London to warn of a ‘sledgehammer majority ‘. handed over to the Keir Starmer-led Labor Party.
“When Rishi asked me to come and help, I obviously couldn’t say no. We are all here because we love our country,” Boris Johnson told a cheering Tory crowd.
“They can achieve nothing in this election other than ushering in the most left-wing Labor government since the war with a large majority, and we cannot let that happen,” he warned.
The Labor Party, meanwhile, is keen to cast aside this message of victory as a foregone conclusion a day before the election, to battle against any complacency within its ranks and among its own voter base.
“People say the polls predict the future – they don’t predict the future, every vote counts, every vote has to be earned… It’s not a job done,” said Keir Starmer.
Polling experts predict a low turnout, which was 67 percent at the last general election in December 2019, when Boris Johnson won a comfortable majority with his ‘get Brexit done’ message.
On Thursday, polling booths across the country will open at 7am local time and close at 10pm local time as voters choose their MPs for the UK Parliament’s 650 constituencies – 326 of which are needed for a majority and to to prevent a hung parliament.
All eyes will then be on the election night exit poll at 10pm, which will provide an honest snapshot of what can be expected nationally as counting begins and concentrates in the UK. If opinion polls are to be believed, the incumbent Tories are poised to win somewhere between 53 and 150 seats, with Labor expected to win a landslide.
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