

He said he "genuinely thinks" Labour is "on course to get a majority government, based on these results".

There's no doubt that these are bad results for the Conservatives, and they're good results both for Labour and the Liberal Democrats, but to me they suggest that the most likely result of the next election is a hung parliament with Labour as the largest party, not an outright Labour victory."īen Nunn, former chief of communications for Sir Keir Starmer, disagreed. "It's nothing like as good as Tony Blair was doing in the mid-1990s.

That's better than they've done since 2010, but it's only a bit better than Ed Miliband did in 2012. He said: "Labour seems to be arguing that when we get the national equivalent vote share figures they're going to be eight points ahead. Lord Barwell, former chief of staff to Theresa May, has told Sky News that today's results are "definitely very bad" for the Tories - but they don't necessarily mean Labour will get a majority at the next general election.
