UK Election poll suggests Tory lead narrows as campaign enters last day

UK Election poll – The latest opinion polling average for the general election shows the Labour Party struggling to catch up to the Conservative Party, though a fresh poll on Tuesday night suggested a hung parliament could still be on the cards.

Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn will each be making their final push for Downing Street today before polling stations open tomorrow, with opinion polls so far showing the Conservative Party still in front with an average lead of 9.5-points.

Despite both leaders facing criticism, Mr Johnson’s “get Brexit done” message appears to be cutting through the noise, while Mr Corbyn has struggled to break over 35 points in the polls.

Mr Johnson gave the Tories an initial boost when he was elected party leader at the end of July, with average polling figures showing Conservative support jumping from around 25 per cent to almost 35 per cent by the start of September, pulling well clear of Labour.

This was helped by a crash in support for the Brexit Party. Mr Farage’s party had been riding high following their success in the EU Parliament elections, with more than one in five people backing the Brexit Party. This support has since switched back to the Tories under Boris Johnson.

Meanwhile, Labour was struggling to sell their confusing Brexit message to a sceptical public who were clearly divided between Leave and Remain.

At the same time, the Liberal Democrats were looking rejuvenated under new leader Jo Swinson and scored big wins in the May local elections and EU Parliament elections with a clear anti-Brexit agenda. They had started to poll consistently at over 20 points.

But Ms Swinson quickly started to lose momentum once the election was called, with the Lib Dem leader criticised for claiming she could win an outright majority and struggling in televised debates over her time in coalition with the Tories.

Source – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/