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This Is Why

Poll suggests record Tory slump - what could change in two weeks?

This Is Why

Sky News

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Sky News has partnered with YouGov for the general election campaign and today the second of their three MRP polling projections is out. 
 
It makes for very bleak reading for the Conservatives, suggesting they have not made any gains during the campaign and could slump to historically low seat numbers.   
  
The poll also suggests Labour's majority is up, the Liberal Democrats are up as well and Reform UK could win several seats.  
  
On this episode, Niall Paterson analyses the implications of today’s poll with our deputy political editor Sam Coates. 
  
Plus, Sky’s political correspondent Tamara Cohen joins us from Edinburgh where she was at the launch of the SNP manifesto. 

Producers: Sydney Pead 
Podcast Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku   
Editor: Wendy Parker

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I'm Neil Patterson.

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Welcome back to the Sky News Daily, where later we are heading to Scotland, the S&P's John Swinney,

1:08.7

launching their manifesto today, with polls suggesting they're on track to lose a significant number of seats at Tamara Cohen was there. She'll be here shortly. But speaking of polls, YouGov has just released the latest in its regular polling data for Sky News. They've consistently shown Labour with a commanding lead and potentially a huge majority,

1:31.0

the other side of the election.

1:33.6

Our deputy political editor is Sam Coates, and he joins us from Westminster, where, as you

1:38.2

are about to hear, the builders are in, maybe fixing the roof whilst the sun is shining.

1:43.2

Sam, this latest set of data. Do we see

1:45.9

any movement in it? Yes, absolutely. In the opposite direction to what the guy who called the election

1:52.5

would have wanted to see Rishi Sunak, the Tories are taking and wait for it. Absolute hammering

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