Conservatives face 1997-style electoral wipeout, major poll suggests

Rishi Sunak could lead the Tories to electoral oblivion, the polling suggests (Peter Byrne/PA)

The British Conservative Party are facing a 1997-style electoral wipeout that would hand Labour a 120-seat majority, a major opinion poll suggests.

A YouGov survey of 14,000 people indicates that Rishi Sunak’s Tories could hold on to as few as 169 seats as Keir Starmer’s Labour enters Downing Street with 385.