The Conservatives would win fewer seats than the Scottish National Party (SNP) if there was a General Election tomorrow. This means the Tories would be wiped out as the official opposition, a veteran Conservative politician warned today (October 18).
Sir Charles Walker, MP for Broxbourne since 2005, made the claim after another devastating poll for the Tories. The Conservatives' worst defeat in the last century was the 165 seats it won in 1997.
But in a poll of polls over the weekend, the Electoral Calculus website estimated the Tories would win just 48 seats if an election was tomorrow - with the SNP winning 52, reports the Mirror. Labour would win 507 seats, according to the 'advanced modelling' of opinion polls of 11,358 people, giving the party a 364-seat majority.
