British Prime Minister Theresa May could lose overall majority in the upcoming general election in the UK, according to a new poll.
YouGov’s first constituency-by-constituency estimate of the election results predicts that the Conservative Party could lose 20 seats and Labour could gain almost 30 in next week’s election.
That means Tories could ultimately win 310 seats at the election, falling short of an absolute majority of 326 seats needed to form a government.
Such a result on June 9 would be catastrophic for May, who called for the snap election back in April, arguing the UK needed certainty, stability and strong leadership in Brexit negotiations with the EU.
The prime minister, however, said Monday that the government would “negotiate the right deal” but “no deal is better than a bad deal. We have to be prepared to walk out.”
Andrew Hawkins, the chairman of ComRes, a market research consultancy, told The Times, “If voters behave in the…