Pollsters tell Sunak he is wrong over hung parliament prediction [Video]

Pollsters have dismissed Rishi Sunak’s claims that his party still has a fighting chance with a general election likely to produce “a hung parliament.”

The prime minister is set to try to persuade MPs tomorrow that the result will be closer than many people predict at the first of two briefing sessions on the local elections alongside his party chairman Richard Holden and head of election strategy Isaac Levido.

The session will include a full assessment and breakdown of what the disastrous local election results mean after the Tories lost almost 500 council seats, the Blackpool South by-election and, most devastatingly, the West Midlands mayor.

Mr Sunak though has already made his “hung parliment” claims based on the vote share in the local elections. Thi was based on Labour’s vote share being 34 percent to the Tories’ …