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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inboxGet our free View from Westminster emailRishi Sunak has revealed his favourite Nando’s order, and it includes a controversial side dish. He disclosed his preferred order from the peri-peri chicken restaurant when questioned by a girls’ team at Wantage Town FC.Mr Sunak said his Nando’s order was a half chicken, medium spiced, with chips and broccoli, adding: “It’s good broccoli”. The Prime Minister said he also likes to “mix it up” sometimes and get boneless chicken thighs.Mr Sunak gave his order when questioned by a girls’ team at Wantage Town FC More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inboxGet our free View from Westminster emailThe Tories are desperately scrambling to get up to 141 candidates in place ahead of the deadline at 4pm on Friday.Among the last ditch selections will be party members in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich tonight making a decision on whether to adopt party chairman Richard Holden amid a row that he is being “parachuted” into the constituency after “going on a chicken run” from the north east of England.The seat was left open as a result of Dr Dan Poulter defecting to Labour from the Conservatives a few weeks before the election was called. When the election was called it is understood that 191 constituencies did not have a Conservative candidate, this was added to when 10 Tory MPs including Michael Gove decided to quit. Estimates leave that number still at 141 although this has been denied by some party sources.Tory chairman Richard Holden is an MP looking for a seat More

Starmer says he would be prepared to deploy nuclear weapons if needed to defend UKSign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inboxGet our free View from Westminster emailA major new general election poll predicts the Conservatives are heading for electoral disaster as Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer battle it out on their campaign trails. Redfield and Wilton has published its second nationwide poll since the election was called at 3pm on Monday, having asked 10,000 respondents how they will vote on 4 July. They put the Tories on just 20 per cent, 26 points behind Labour. And at 5pm, a YouGov poll is due to show the projected winner, the size of the majority, as well as the makeup of the House of Commons and the names of any MPs set to lose their seats.It comes after a mega-poll published over the weekend suggests the Tories could win just 66 seats in parliament.The result would be a Labour landslide, with Sir Keir Starmer’s party securing 476 MPs – a majority of 302 – once tactical voting has been taken into account.Show latest update 1717426171‘Tories are facing a catastrophe, a complete wipeout’Director of research Philip van Scheltinga said: “After a week and a half of campaigning, the polls have changed, and the Conservatives are no longer facing a big loss on July 4. Instead, they are now facing a catastrophe, a complete wipeout.”Maryam Zakir-Hussain3 June 2024 15:491717425039PM’s approval rating drops, poll showsAccording to the poll, Rishi Sunak’s approval rating is down by 17 per cent. Maryam Zakir-Hussain3 June 2024 15:301717423714Labour to take majority, newly published mega-poll showsRedfield and Wilton’s survey of 10,000 voters published today sees Labour 26 points ahead of the Tories:Maryam Zakir-Hussain3 June 2024 15:081717423413New super poll shows Tories heading for election wipeout – with Lib Dems becoming second biggest partyA new super poll has indicated that the Tories are on the cusp of suffering the biggest general election disaster in their history.Redfield and Wilton’s survey of 10,000 voters published today (3 June) has the Conservatives at just 20 per cent, 26 points behind Labour. It is the second poll in three days predicting disaster for the government.Director of research Philip van Scheltinga said: “After a week and a half of campaigning, the polls have changed, and the Conservatives are no longer facing a big loss on July 4. Instead, they are now facing a catastrophe, a complete wipeout.”Our political editor David Maddox has more:Maryam Zakir-Hussain3 June 2024 15:031717421041Tories heading for election wipeout as new mega-poll suggests they could win just 66 seatsThe Conservatives are heading for electoral disaster and could win just 66 seats in parliament, a new mega-poll suggests.The result would be a Labour landslide, with Sir Keir Starmer’s party securing 476 MPs – a majority of 302 – once tactical voting has been taken into account.Read more here:Maryam Zakir-Hussain3 June 2024 14:24 More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inboxGet our free View from Westminster emailA new super poll has indicated that the Tories are on the cusp of suffering the biggest general election disaster in their history.Redfield and Wilton’s survey of 10,000 voters published today (3 June) has the Conservatives at just 20 per cent, 26 points behind Labour. It is the second poll in three days predicting disaster for the government.Director of research Philip van Scheltinga said: “After a week and a half of campaigning, the polls have changed, and the Conservatives are no longer facing a big loss on July 4. Instead, they are now facing a catastrophe, a complete wipeout.”Click here for the latest coverage of election polls. The findings have suggested a potential “Canada-style” collapse for the party based on when the Canadian Conservative Party went into the 1993 election as the government and only managed to hold on to two seats.In a crushing blow for the Tories, Electoral Calculus predicts they would win a mere 24 seats if the poll was replicated in an election. Electoral Calculus is a website used by political analysts which bases its estimates on the effects of swings in support between parties but does not take local factors into account.The Lib Dems would be the second party on 51 seats and Labour would have a majority of 426 with more than 500 seats. Even Rishi Sunak would lose his North Yorkshire seat to Labour in this scenario.This follows the MRP poll over the weekend suggesting the Tories will win only 66 seats.The Tories are emphasising that the predictions are based on polls with the only real poll being the general election itself.Rishi Sunak could be leading his party to its worst ever result More