Nigel Farage tell the people Of Houghton-le-Spring it's time for a new voice (Image: Getty) In six days it will all be over. The votes will be counted, the results will be in, and the new prime minister will be off to see the King. The preceding six weeks, with its succession of gaffes, mishaps and scarcely believable scandals, will seem like a slightly surreal dream – or, if you’re Rishi Sunak , a nightmare.
Most people think they know what will happen. Keir Starmer not becoming prime minister on Friday morning would make the shocks of 2016 ( Brexit , Trump, Leicester City winning the Premier League ) look tame. Less clear is the scale of the likely Conservative defeat.
More than half of voters now expect a large Labour majority, according to my latest polling – up from just over a third in the days after Rishi’s surprise announcement in the Downing Street drizzle. Most of those who expect such a result say this is because of the polls and predictions they see in the news – and it is true that many studies point to varying degrees of Labour landslide. But as a wise man once said, it’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.
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