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Originally Posted by Hugh
How strange - the Comres site seems to give a different message for that poll - it shows Labour getting 83 more seats than the Conservatives. |
Possibly because the ComRes web page you copied from only includes the results for their standard top line “who would you vote for?” question, whereas the Telegraph has commissioned a pile of extra research, not reported on the web page, that explores differing voting intentions depending on who the next Tory leader is.
That research is in the PDF linked from your ComRes page, and the results begin in Table 34, on p37 of the PDF.
This isn’t the first set of results I’ve seen that prove the Tories have no choice but to select Boris if they want to win another election any time in the next 10 years. It remains to be seen however whether the parliamentary party is thinking straight enough to choose survival over the opportunity to settle scores.
If Boris finishes in the top 2 of the MPs ballot, he’ll win the members’ vote by a country mile and then politics in this country is going to get really interesting.