British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives are holding a commanding lead over the Labour Party ahead of the June election, a new poll shows.
According to an ICM opinion poll for the Guardian newspaper released on Monday, 48 percent of voters said they would vote for the Conservative Party, while support for Labour stood at 27 percent — both parties are up two percentage points from a poll last Tuesday.
In a surprise move on April 18, May called a snap election to be held in June in order to bolster her position before going into two years of negotiations with the European Union about Britain’s departure from the bloc.
The Liberal Democrats were on 10 percent with the pro-Brexit UK Independence Party (UKIP) on 7 percent, both down a percentage point.
The survey was conducted between April 21 and 24 of 2,024 possible voters.
According to the poll, the Conservative lead is enough to win a majority that could be over 100 seats, but Prime Minister…