PM: We’ll fight for every vote

THE Tories have insisted they are not complacent about the election amid varying forecasts of how many seats they will win.

Theresa May and the Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson urged their campaigners to fight for every vote after one survey suggested support was falling.

Most polls released over the weekend said the Conservatives’ share was on the up, but one by Survation had the two main parties closer, with the Tories on 40 per cent and Labour on 29 per cent. The pollster interviewed voters on Friday afternoon and Saturday, as the row over Tory tax and pension plans was emerging.

But a ComRes poll for the Sunday Mirror put the Tories at 50 per cent and Labour on 25 per cent, the first time it has put a party at 50 per cent since 2002. A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times had the Tories on 48 per cent and Labour on 25 per cent.

But the Prime Minister said: ‘The opinion polls got the General Election wrong in 2015. They got the EU referendum wrong … So we will not be complacent. We will be fighting for every single vote.’

The Tories could gain 12 SNP seats, a Panelbase poll for the Sunday Times found. ÷The European Parliament Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt yesterday said Mrs May’s claim she will be stronger in the talks with an election win was ‘nonsensical’.