Nearly Half Of 2019 Tory Voters Say The Party Doesn't Deserve To Win The Next Election

Almost two thirds of people believe the Conservative party deserves to lose the next general election, including nearly half of those who voted Tory in 2019, according to new polling.

Research carried out by More in Common paints a bleak picture for Conservative MPs as they prepare to return to their constituencies for the three-week Easter recess, and with 2 May local elections on the horizon.

The organisation's latest voting intention poll, conducted and published last week, put Keir Starmer's Labour Party 18 per cent ahead of Rishi Sunak's Tories — the biggest Labour lead More in Common has found using its current methodology.

It was the latest poll to suggest that Labour's large lead over the Conservatives was widening, despite Downing Street's ongoing effort to rebuild public support for Tory party.

However, additional findings shared exclusively with PoliticsHome further illustrate the scale of the challenge facing the Tories in avoiding defeat at the next general election, which must be called this calendar year.

Nearly two thirds of respondents (58 per cent) said the Conservative party deserves to lose the next general election, while just 18 per cent said it deserves to win it.

In what will likely make ominious reading for No 10 and Conservative strategists, nearly half of people who voted for the Tories at the last general election in 2019 (45 per cent) said the party doesn't deserve to win this time around, while thirty four per cent said that they do.

"The fact that only a third of those who voted Tory in 2019, and only 18 per cent of voters as a whole, even fewer than currently plan to vote Tory, think the Conservative’s should be elected will only add to the Tory gloom," More in Common's UK Director Luke Tryl told