MAY COULD LOSE MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT
Latest poll shows Conservatives risk losing 20 of 330 seats
LONDON
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A failure to build on the working majority of 17 that the Conservatives won at the last election in 2015 would be a major blow for May just as she embarks on the Brexit process.
Seven polls carried out over the past week showed May’s lead over Labour narrowing, with some suggesting she might not win the landslide predicted a month ago.
The lead started to contract sharply after she set out plans to make elderly people pay a greater share of their care costs, a proposal dubbed the “dementia tax” by opponents.
Labour has gone on the attack for cuts to policing, which came into focus after last week’s suicide attack in Manchester that killed 22 people. But, no poll has suggested that the Conservatives could lose their majority in Parliament.
The Times newspaper, which publishes YouGov’s regular opinion polls, said the new election model was based on voting intention data collected over the past week, which put support for the Conservatives at 42 per cent with Labour on 38 per cent. Reuters Rohingya refugees walking next to huts in a makeshift camp in Cox's Bazar district in Bangladesh yesterday after Cyclone Mora made landfall in the region. The cyclone, packing winds of up to 135kph, hit Bangladesh, damaging thousands of homes and displacing 300,000 people in Cox's Bazar, which bears the brunt of the cyclone.