{"id":33724,"date":"2017-06-01T06:15:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T06:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=33724"},"modified":"2017-06-01T06:15:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T06:15:43","slug":"poll-dive-hits-british-pms-election-battl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=33724","title":{"rendered":"Poll dive hits British PM\u2019s election battl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"may-690x450\"Recent opinion polls have showed the gap between the Conservatives and Labour closing<\/h2>\n
British Prime Minister Theresa May was fighting to shore up her general election campaign on Wednesday after a shock projection forecast a hung parliament and left the pound wobbling.<\/div>\n
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The landslide Conservative victory May hoped to seal by calling a snap election for June 8 seemed much less likely with eight days to go, with the polls narrowing and the premier putting in a lacklustre performance in a major television interview.<\/p>\n

The opposition Labour party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, has gradually nibbled away at the Conservative lead in the polls, with the campaign back in full swing after the Manchester attack.<\/p>\n

Polls tightening<\/strong><\/p>\n

May called the election three years early in a bid to strengthen her slender majority in parliament going into the Brexit talks.<\/p>\n

Recent opinion polls have showed the gap between the Conservatives and Labour closing.<\/p>\n

The Daily Telegraph newspaper\u2019s rolling average of the last eight polls now puts the Conservatives on 44%, Labour on 36%, the centrist Liberal Democrats on eight percent and the anti-EU UK Independence Party on 5%.<\/p>\n

A shock new projection on the front page of The Times newspaper forecast a hung parliament in which the Conservatives would fall short of the 326 seats needed for a majority.<\/p>\n

Using new constituency-by-constituency modelling, the projection by pollsters YouGov said the Conservatives would lose 20 seats to 310, with Labour up 28 to 257.<\/p>\n

The model was based on 50,000 interviews over one week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent opinion polls have showed the gap between the Conservatives and Labour closing British Prime Minister Theresa May was fighting to shore up her general election campaign on Wednesday after a shock projection forecast a hung parliament and left the pound wobbling. The landslide Conservative victory May hoped to seal by calling a snap election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n