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AS ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS come to an end in the United Kingdom the Conservative party have suffered from last-minute blows.
As the final results of the final YouGov poll were published this evening, The Sun newspaper – a staunch Tory-supporting tabloid and known to back election winners – published its preview of tomorrow’s front page.
“As Britain goes to the polls, it’s time for a new manager… and we don’t mean sack Southgate,” the front page of the paper says, poking fun at calls to oust the England football manager.
As the paper explains, while it supports many of the policies brought in under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s time in No 10 – such as the Rwanda policy and tax reforms – it adds: “Put bluntly, the Tories are exhausted.”
“It’s time for change,” the paper adds.
The results of the final YouGov poll are less forgiving as they project Sunak’s Conservative Party are on track to lose more than 260 seats, including some high-profile MPs.
Compared to the 2019 General Election result, the British Labour Party are on track to gain more almost 230 seats, doubling their current count and even win some seats in SNP strongholds in Scotland.
Sunak insisted in a closing speech to supporters this evening that the contest was “not over”, while conceding he was the “underdog”.
Labour leader Keir Starmer crossed the country in a bid to shore up support and warn against overconfidence in the campaign’s remaining hours.
“What I’ve said to the team is nobody is to be complacent,” he told reporters. Quipping that he hoped it would not be bringing them home anytime soon, Starmer said Labour had been doing “a lot of preparation” for governing.
“We’re not going to get a period of time for grace. We’re going to start straight away.”
Voters head to the polls from 7.00 am tomorrow morning, with results expected from around 2230 GMT into Friday morning.
Keep up-to-date with the latest election news from Northern Ireland, here. The Journal will bring you the latest results and breaking stories throughout the day tomorrow and into the night.
Contains reporting from © AFP 2024
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If The Sun was the only paper in a public toilet I’d walk out without wiping.
@Don’t Forget: Brilliant!
@Don’t Forget:Well said. I’d actually let me bum tell them what it thinks of the rag and flush it away.
@Don’t Forget: Agreed. I’d rather shyte into my own hands and clap than use that rag for toilet paper.
@Paul Gorry: i ran out once while over in the UK. I used the skinny, no offence at all meant to their writers. Wasn’t too much of a burn :p
This version of labour is just tories light. Starmer has the charisma of a parsnip. Nothing will change for them there yonder.
@eoin fitzpatrick: Starmer’s comments on the genocide being perpetrated by Israel have been nothing short of a disgrace. Tony Benn would be turning in his grave to see the party he loved become the Tories Mk 2.
@Anthony Curran: what would tony benn make of the centre righters and champagne socialists who make up the cowardly Irish Labour party? Such Tories they sicken me.
Muiris, the s*n may be a lot of things, but a “newspaper” it isn’t.
Wasn’t it the Sun whose readers couldn’t tell the difference between childrens’ doctors and paedophiles? They ran a campaign encouraging vigilante attacks against known child abusers. A hugely respected Welsh doctor had her home subsequently attacked. The sign outside which said “Registered Paediatrician” caused untold confusion among Jeremy Kyle’s finest.
@Mary Sullivan: the Murducks gutter press has used everything Geobbles did and more ,and the Australian has irish in his dnah
@Mary Sullivan: Double egg and chips please darlin
Onion vs garlic !
The British people voted their Country out of Europe. They now realise the Tories sold them a Pup. Country is going down the toilet. Uk national debt was £700billion when Cameron announced the Referendum. It’s now at £2.6Trillion and rising. Borrowing their way out of trouble is not working. It a strategy that was based on doing massive international trade deals, in order to pay back all of this borrowing. Trade deals are non existent. Stepping outside the biggest trading block on the planet was never going to work. The Tories and bed fellows DUP without the sex sandal Donaldson are going to pay for their Folly.
The UK have shifted leftward after decades of rightwing rule. Even with Boris saying that Labour are the “most left-wing Labour government since the war”, the public will overwhelmingly elect them.
@9QRixo8H: The tories have set the UK back 20 years with their disgraceful brexit and pathetic policies that favoured only the rich. Let’s hope Labour can help resolve some of their issues.
@9QRixo8H: Absolute nonsense out of Boris. This labour party is box standard neonliberal. Culturally left. Economically conservative…. Neo Liberalism is the biggest smoke and mirrors conjob since the second world war. Ledt wing me hole.
Iam lucky that I can ,eventually figure out chancers, so I have always voted left and center, how working people vote for right wing parties, is in my opinion based on poor education and a inability to accept personal responsibility
Swapping one set of useless bar stewards for another. Yay.
@Setanta O’Toole: isn’t it good for their democracy that they relatively mix it up ?! Unlike the Irish who allow the tories back in every time and barely kicked up a fuss when they engaged in the behaviour they did in 2020.
GENERAL ELECTION NOW
@S Suilleabhain: so their democracy working is good for democracy but our democracy working is bad for democracy. Sound logic. What you really mean is our democracy isn’t working the way you want it to.
@S Suilleabhain: the misery of you shinners is a tonic lol
@Setanta O’Toole: Did you read or have you ever absorbed the fact that no one else has led government except FG FF who are a bunch of TORIES/? Dis-ingenious reply
@John D Doe: your prejudice ridden comments are routine and show who you are. I seem to recall telling you I’m not with SF?
@Setanta O’Toole: NOT TO MENTION, Fine gael already showed you plain as day in 2020 that they have nothing but contempt for democracy in this country
There is no coincidence that they’re all running out the door. May history judge ye for what ye have done. There is nowhere to hide.
War criminals and Zionist puppets. Ye were told not to force prophecy, ye were told that everything would be explained.
Ye were told to wait. Not the Lords fault that you refuse to do as you were asked.
Not enough people on the right side of history. Betrayers.
@Séamas Mac Cárthaigh: You lost me after “There is…”
@William Tallon:
Is that the best reply you have?
Wait till you see what your government has been hiding from you.
Benjamin Netanyahu you put every Jew on the planet in harm’s way with your actions but that was your always intent. You were told not to lay your hands on the Palestinian people, everyone else was told to lay down your weapons.
Ireland was chosen by the Lord to be the nucleus of which the Millennium Kingdom is to be built around. The Zionists are trying to circumvent that intent, never ends well when you try take from the Lord.
New heaven and new earth coming up!
Continued circus going around in, well, circles.
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