MPs urge Prime Minister to hammer 'vote Reform, get Labour' message
The Prime Minister has attracted criticism from Conservatives and pollsters alike following his claims that theto form a majority at the general election.
But pollsters have pointed out that the analysis assumes that voters will vote exactly the same way in the general election, that Labour’s performance would remain unchanged from the 2019 election in Scotland and Wales, and that it fails to take into account the impact on the Tories of Reform UK. Senior Tories have criticised the strategy, blaming it on CCHQ’s election guru Isaac Levido, who has been accused of trying to resurrect his former boss Lynton Crosby’s “coalition of chaos” campaign from 2015, which produced pictures of Ed Miliband inside the then SNP leader Alex Salmond’s top pocket.: “I don’t buy it at all. I suspect this is Isaac trying to set up a campaign with the attack line about Starmer being propped up by Swinney as Lynton did with Miliband and Salmond.
Polling guru Professor Sir John Curtice was equally dismissive about using local elections to predict Westminster seats. “It’s quite long been the case, certainly since the late 1980s, that the way that people vote in local elections doesn’t necessarily exactly mirror the way that they would vote in a general election,” he told the BBC.
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