I'm Neil Patterson. Welcome to the Sky News Daily, where I am feeling very refreshed after a few days off.

And it's a pretty good thing because it is a very busy day out there on the campaign trail.

We've had policy announcements from both the Conservatives and Labour.

Culture Wars versus actual wars.

We've had Nigel Farage making an emergency statement, hold tight for the latest on that.

But we're going to begin with the polls.

No, not of the greasy, nor the 10-foot barge variety,

instead of the type that have been giving Rishi Sunak nightmares almost ever since he entered at number 10. Our chief political correspondent is

John Craig and he joins us once again on the daily. John, look, this is a collaboration between

Sky News and the pollsters, you gov. They will be with us for the duration of this campaign. They have

essentially taken a snapshot of where the polls are right now and extrapolated

that out to imagine what the world might look like, or at least the United Kingdom, at the day after

the polls close. It's a stunning poll. It suggests that Sir Keir Starrmer could be heading to

Downing Street with a majority of wait for for it, one hundred and ninety four seats.

Whoa.

That is bigger than Tony Blair's 179 majority in 1997.

It's predicting a Tory wipeout in large parts of the country,

a Lib Dem surge and the Scottish National Party losing more than half their seats in Scotland.

OK, John, allow me to caveat the living heck out of what we have just heard in the sense that, look, I understand how you've have done this.

They've taken where we are in the polls as of this moment and extrapolated it out. But as you and I both

know, an awful lot can happen in election campaign. This is but a snapshot of a moment in time.

I mean, I'm just going to say, if this is what it looks like on the day after we go to the

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