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Our weekly poll shows 53% of Brits think a landslide win would mean Labour would be able to ‘get things done whilst in Government’ as Tory warnings about a ‘supermajority’ backfire
More than half of Brits aren’t worried about Tory scaremongering about a Labour “supermajority” – as they think it’ll mean Keir Starmer can get things done.
Our weekly poll shows 53% think a landslide win would mean Labour “would actually be able to get things done whilst in Government”, while 17% disagree that statement.
More than half (56%) think a supermajority would allow Labour to pass difficult but necessary legislation, while 12% disagree, according to the survey conducted by Whitestone Insight.
A plurality (45%) think a massive win would let Mr Starmer do what he wants, compared to 30% who disagree. The poll also found 40% think a massive Labour win would mean less division in Parliament, while 28% disagree.
It comes after the Tories desperately tried to claw back wavering voters by warning Labour could be handed unchecked power if it wins a massive Commons majority.
Some experts have predicted Mr Starmer’s party could be handed a bigger victory than Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide win, where Labour was elected with a 179-seat majority.
A recent mega-poll for the Mirror predicted Labour was on course for an unprecedented majority of 250 seats. The survey of almost 20,000 people by Find Out Now and Electoral Calculus said Labour could pick up 450 seats, with the Tories reduced to just 60 MPs – behind the Lib Dems on 71.
Claudia Toma, a consultant at Whitestone Insight, said: “Despite Conservative media spinning, this poll suggests that voters are not worried about a Labour supermajority and in fact can see many upsides to it, such as Labour being able to pass difficult but necessary legislation.”
It comes as Deputy PM Oliver Dowden was forced to resort to doom-laden warnings that voters would suffer “buyer’s remorse” if they backed Labour. He acknowledged that people were frustrated with the Tories but pleaded: “Don’t think about the anger just now, right at this moment.”
Mr Dowden denied he wanted to succeed Mr Sunak as leader if the Tories are wiped out at the polls. “There’s only one thing that I’m focused on, and that is making sure we have an overall majority for the Conservative Party, to fight for every single vote,” he told Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips.
:: Whitestone Insight interviewed 2,012 adults in Britain online on June 26 and 27.
