Poll shows Tories on course for sizeable majority

Boris Johnson is on course to win the general election with a comfortable majority by taking seats in Labour heartlands, according to a projection poll which accurately forecast the hung parliament in 2017.

With just over two weeks to polling day, the constituency-by-constituency estimate by YouGov indicates that if the election was held on Thursday, the Conservative Party would win 359 seats, 42 more than they took in 2017.

Labour, meanwhile, are set to lose 51 seats, falling from 262 seats in 2017 to 211 now, and taking 32% of the vote, a nine percentage point decrease.



Julia Hartley-Brewer speaks with:

► Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith ► 0:00

► Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Peter Dowd ► 10:24

► SNP election candidate Drew Hendry ► 23:40

► Health Secretary Matt Hancock ► 30:02

► Liberal Democrat election candidate Christine Jardine ► 40:15

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