Irish Examiner view: British voters will take their chance for revenge

There are many reasons voters want to see the back of a government which took up office in 2010 under David Cameron, ushering in a period of rule disproportionately influenced by ex-public schoolboys

Keir Starmer's Labour Party is tipped to defeat the Conservatives led by Rishi Sunak. Picture: PA

If we are to believe the opinion polls — and it is a brave person who gainsays them — then our nearest neighbours will this week deliver the most resounding defeat for a sitting government in British electoral history.

In doing so they will end 14 years of ‘Tory misrule’, bringing up to date a catchphrase popularised by the impressionist Mike Yarwood and attributed to the bluff Yorkshireman and four-times Labour prime minister Harold Wilson.