LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's Conservative Party effectively conceded electoral defeat to Keir Starmer's Labour Party on Wednesday (3), a day before polls open, and warned the opposition party was on course for a record victory.
Opinion polls show the centre-left Labour Party is set to win a landslide victory in Thursday's election, which will end 14 years of Conservative rule and hand Starmer the keys to No 10 Downing Street on Friday morning.
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Both Starmer and Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak began the final day of campaigning before polls opened by warning voters of dire economic consequences if the other side wins.
But faced with expectations of the worst result in the party's history, the Conservatives have shifted their focus to damage limitation, saying they need to retain enough seats to provide an effective opposition to a Labour government.
“I fully accept that the state of the polls at the moment means that tomorrow we are likely to have a Labour majority, the largest majority this country has ever seen,” said Conservative minister Mel Stride. BBC.
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“So what matters now is what kind of opposition we have, and what kind of government oversight capacity we have in parliament.”
Asked about Stride's comments, Sunak told ITV: “I fight hard for every vote.”
Surveys' analysis predicts Labour will win 484 of the 650 seats in parliament, far more than the 418 seats won by former party leader Tony Blair in his landslide victory in 1997, the highest number in the party's history.
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The Conservatives are expected to win just 64 seats, the lowest number since the party was founded in 1834.
Other analyses have shown smaller margins of victory for Labour, but none have shown a different overall result.
