Rishi Sunak has suffered a fresh blow on the eve of the general election poll after poll puts the Conservatives on course for a worse defeat than in 1997.
With just hours until polls open, a survey for More in Common predicted the party will win just 126 seats, compared with Labour on a total of 430.
That would be down from the 365 seats won by the Tories in 2019, with chancellor Jeremy Hunt and defence secretary Grant Shapps set to be ousted.
YouGov pollsters have said Labour will win 431 seats.
Earlier, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claimed Boris Johnson’s intervention for the Tories “won’t have done them any good at all”.
Mr Johnson warned a Labour super-majority would be “pregnant with horrors”.
Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer said Tory warnings on Labour being likely to win “the largest majority any party has ever achieved” amounted to “voter suppression”.
Work and pensions secretary Mel Stride said Labour was likely to win “the largest majority any party has ever achieved”.
And a second Tory minister, Andrew Griffith, said Labour would win a majority “unprecedented in modern history”.
