Leaked polling shows ‘existential threat’ to party – and victory for Reform Daily Telegraph link The Tories would win just 14 seats if a general election were called now, according to polling circulating inside Conservative Party headquarters and leaked to The Telegraph. The research suggests the Tories would be obliterated in what one insider described as an “existential threat” to the most successful party in British electoral history. The findings – which predict that Reform UK would win a 46-seat majority – will inevitably raise serious questions over Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the party. One Tory HQ insider said the results showed the party was in danger of “being consigned to the history books”. While Mrs Badenoch is widely recognised to have improved her performance in recent weeks, her critics complain she was too passive in her first months in charge, allowing Nigel Farage and Reform “to fill the political vacuum”. The polling, carried out by Stack Data Strategy,...
Labour may soon be no more than a metropolitan fringe movement that can only govern in a Left-wing coalition Daily Telegraph 20/11/25 link As the psychodrama over Sir Keir Starmer’s future plays out in Westminster, an equally captivating spectacle is unfolding across the last of the Labour strongholds. The second wave of the Red Wall revolt – this time in the reddest of red seats – is gearing up to be even more momentous than the first. The most “iron red” areas – the mining towns and steel seats that held strong even during Boris Johnson’s insurgency of 2019 – are poised to ditch the party of their ancestors. The tsunami that threatens to rip through the most Labour corners of the country makes the Red Wall hurricane of the Brexit wars feel like a mere breezy interlude. That seats from Doncaster to Wigan have stayed Labour since they voted for Brexit in 2016 is testament to the stickiness of the Red vote. For all the talk of realignment, Labour’s credentials as the party of ...