LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on the verge of losing his seat and neither of the two main political parties will win an absolute majority in the next general election, to be held by 2024, according to a new poll.
This is the first detailed survey of public perception of how Johnson has dealt with recent discussions on Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic after reversing plans to allow families to meet for Christmas in parts of southern England to combat the spread. virus.
More than 22,000 people were surveyed in a four-week carefully surveyed constituency survey in December conducted by research data company Focaldata and published by the Sunday Times.
The so-called multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) survey found that Conservative leaders would lose 81 seats, eliminating the majority of 80 seats. This would leave the Conservatives with 284 seats, while the opposition Labor Party would win 282 seats, the poll showed.
The Scottish National Party, which wants to break away from the rest of the UK, is expected to win 57 of Scotland’s 59 seats, which means the party could play a leading role in forming the next government.
The prime minister risks losing his own headquarters in Uxbridge, west of London, according to the poll.
Johnson won a resounding election victory last year that took Britain out of the European Union’s New Year’s Eve after nearly half a century of close ties.
But Johnson’s prime minister can be increasingly defined by the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has already killed more than 74,000 people and crushed the economy.