It’s not all bad news! Poll gives hope of Tory revival

A SENIOR Tory MP has insisted the next general election is still up for grabs after research found many voters remain undecided.

Tobias Ellwood admitted that the Conservatives under Liz Truss had made mistakes and people had been unhappy with his party.

But he said Rishi Sunak was now doing an excellent job of stabilising the economy while Labour was untested and voters did not know what Sir Keir Starmer’s party stood for.

Mr Ellwood’s comments came after research showed that in some areas almost one in three adults were unsure who to back at the next election, due in 2024.

The polling by Focaldata asked more than 10,000 people about their voting intentions

and at first predicted Labour would take power with 517 seats out of 650.

However, the figure fell sharply to 353 when the focus shifted to ‘don’t knows’, reported The Sunday Times.

The study by campaign group Best for Britain concluded most undecided voters match the age and education profiles of Conservative backers. If they plumped for the

Tories, this would deny many seats Labour is currently projected to win.

The research added that ‘Conservative-leaning voters have been wavering rather than switching to Labour’.

Yesterday Mr Ellwood, chairman of the Commons defence committee, was asked if he believed that ‘all is not lost for the Tories’.

He replied: ‘Oh absolutely.

There’s everything to fight for at the next election. There’s concerns about what the Conservatives did, we got it wrong under Liz Truss.’

But the MP added: ‘Nobody knows what Labour stands for. People are reconsidering the Conservatives.

‘I suggest the polls are going to look very different between now and in two years.’