As Rishi fires the starting gun on a six-week election Ivor Gaber makes a few predictions OK, so I know that elections aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but I have to admit that when rumours started swirling around Westminster on Wednesday that Rishi might just be tempted to cut and run – I was excited. At this stage , barring a dramatic turnaround, the overall result looks like it's nailed on for Labour which, in these parts, could result in a fair few seats changing hands, in contrast to 2019 when none did. The polling company Electoral Calculus undertakes detailed constituency-by-constituency research and on current numbers they predict that the Liberal Democrats would capture Eastbourne and Lewes from the Tories, that the two Worthing seats, Peter Bottomley’s West Worthing and East Worthing and Shoreham would switch from Conservative to Labour, whilst Labour would take Crawley, Hastings and Chichester from the Tories and, on these calculations, even Sussex Weald is predicted to go Labour (though that I’ll believe when I see it).
READ MORE: Rishi Sunak announces general election outside NO 10 If all this was all to come to pass, Labour would win nationally with a massive landslide – but, and it’s a big but, these are just predictions made before the six-week campaign has barely begun and should be treated with some caution. Sunak is clearly hoping that the recent good news about the economy - inflation down, as are energy bills, wages up and the economy again grow.
