THE Conservative Party will lose 50 seats at a general election if Boris Johnson fails to win over supporters of the Brexit Party, new analysis predicts.
The catastrophic wipeout would see two cabinet ministers – Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers and Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd – lose their seats, while 35 of the casualties would be Brexiteer MPs. It would leave Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour as the biggest party with 288 seats, opening the door for a Remain alliance with the Lib Dems and SNP. The threat to the Tories from the Brexit Party comes as speculation grows there will be another general election following a no confidence vote in Parliament.
Brexit Party sources have revealed they have been approached by senior Tory ministers who support leaving the EU, begging Nigel Farage to keep putting up candidates to “keep the government honest on Brexit”. With another 150 Brexit Party candidates set to be unveiled this week, a senior party source said: “We have spoken to two [pro-Brexit] senior ministers who told us that putting up candidates against them will mean they will lose their seats.
“But they said, ‘Please keep putting candidates up because it is the one thing keeping the Government honest on Brexit. If you don’t do it we won’t leave [the EU] on 31 October’.”
The predicted loss of 50 seats is based on the latest ComRes poll for Britain Elects, which put Labour on 30 per cent, the Conservatives on 29, the Lib Dems on 16 and Brexit Party on 15.
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