The Times
21 October 2023
Tryl warned: “It leaves the party stuck in catch-22: do they lean in further to the right to win back disgruntled Tories voting for Reform UK, but risk losing many other votes from their liberal flank — or do they accept that there are a handful of seats that could be lost purely because Reform UK wins enough votes to let Labour or the Liberal Democrats in?”
On Monday More in Common will release a poll showing that voters now want an early general election — 73 per cent say it should be before the end of May, while 18 per cent say this year. Only 15 per cent want to wait until next autumn — which Tory chiefs are still planning for — and only 12 per cent until January 2025, the latest month an election can be held.
