After five prime ministers and 14 years in power, it seems Britain is about to kick out the Conservative Party. Polls predict an electoral victory of historic proportions for the opposition Labour Party – it’s being described in cataclysmic terms as a political landslide – and one of this week’s Riz Khan Show guests called it a “national exorcism.” All of this before a single vote has been cast. So where did it all go wrong for the Conservatives?
Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, made a series of pledges – including cutting immigration and hospital waiting lists – that he was unable to keep.
His electoral campaign has been plagued by a series of blunders from the beginning, as he announced the election date while standing outside 10 Downing Street in a rainstorm without an umbrella. He later incurred the wrath of the nation when he left veterans and world leaders at a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings to return home to record a TV interview.
Disaffected Conservative voters began to turn to the Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage, a prominent figure in the Brexit campaign that took Britain out of the European Union.
The right-wing party has no MPs yet but created a shockwave when one poll reported it had overtaken the Conservatives, relegating them to third place.
Polls suggest all of this will present the Labour Party with possibly the biggest electoral victory in history.
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