Quarter of 2019 Tory voters now think party deserves to lose every seat
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Quarter of 2019 Tory voters now think party deserves to lose every seat
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/12/tory-2019-voters-say-conservatives-deserve-to-lose-seats/
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**From The Telegraph’s Political Correspondent, Will Hazell:**
A quarter of those who voted Conservative in 2019 say the party deserves to lose all its seats at [the general election](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/general-election-2024/), polling has found.
Nearly half of all voters also think Rishi Sunak’s party deserves to be totally wiped out, meaning a recent pivot by the Tories to flag the [dangers of a Labour super-majority](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/12/general-election-latest-news-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer/) may not be as effective a strategy as they would hope.
Public First surveyed 2,011 UK adults between June 7 and 9 on what they expect and hope will happen when voters go to the polls on July 4.
Forty-six per cent of people agreed that the Tories “deserve to lose every seat they have”, including 24 per cent of those who voted for the party in 2019. Just 35 per cent disagreed with the statement.
Sixteen per cent said they neither agreed nor disagreed, while three per cent answered “don’t know”.
Asked separately whether they would actually [like to see the Conservatives lose all their seats](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/0/who-should-i-vote-for-in-the-2024-uk-general-election/) – rather than just believing that they deserve to – 36 per cent indicated a specific preference for this outcome, including 13 per cent of their 2019 voters.
Twenty-two per cent of UK adults said they would like to see the Tories lose the election, “but I would still like them to have at least some seats”, while 6 per cent said they would “like them to only lose by a bit”.
One in 10 said they wanted a hung parliament and 16 per cent said they wanted the Tories to win [the election](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/0/when-is-next-uk-general-election-2024/).
Among every age group except those over 65, the proportion who want the Conservatives to lose all their seats is larger than the proportion who say they would like to see the party win the election.
Even when asked to type in the ideal number of seats they would like to see the Conservatives win – to make sure people were not exaggerating – 24 per cent said precisely zero.
Fifty per cent said they would like to see them win 170 seats or less, and 34 per cent would like to see them win 50 seats or less. This is despite 69 per cent of the public agreeing that it is important for the opposition party to be big enough to get their view across.
In recent days, the [Tories appear to have pivoted to a defensive strategy](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/11/reform-voters-could-leave-us-on-just-57-seats-says-tory-ad/) in their advertising, highlighting the dangers of Labour winning a huge majority.
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The public are tired of the Tories, and at this point I doubt there’s anything Sunak could promise that would turn things around.
If only those people had had such a clear view in 2019.
I really wonder, maybe it’s just dreaming, but MAYBE the conservatives are so dead in the water they won’t even be the shadow gov.
I doubt it, but IMAGINE.
The Tory party need flushing so hard they lose the grifting scum who’ve taken the reigns, but having a weak opposition to a Labour government wouldn’t be good in the long run either.
Well they would – Labour are the new Tories, so the status quo will continue unabated
Only a quarter of them? If the Tories go the way of the Liberal Party, then it would be very well deserved.
*yet will still vote for them becasue Labour of 15 years ago will “be just as bad”
I feel like don’t they feel like they are stupid? We told them from them and earlier that tories are the worst and they voted for them anyway, like I’m glad you have come round but surely acknowledge you were dumb for voting for them
Thing is, it’s not about labour or lib dems or reform, but it’s also not about *punishing* the tories.
It’s about explicitly not *rewarding* the tories for the last 14 years.
*Any* seats they win will be taken as an endorsement, its just how they think. And most of the public, right or left, agree that the shambles they’ve created cannot be rewarded.
Easy for me to say as someone broadly on the left, but honestly I’d sooner back reform than this current tory government.
It’s almost like 14 years of taking the piss with the electorate have taken a toll…
It furstrates me a little bit now that wanting the Tory party to be electorally destroyed now means that people may think you’re far right.
It’s taken a bit of the enjoyment out of it.
I’m just begging for them to get fewer than 100 seats. That’s all I want.
Labour should take note and keep their promise to cut immigration otherwise reform will be gaining even more strength
Only a quarter? We still have a lot of stupidity to work through