Tory majority in doubt as Telegraph poll shows lead of just eight points – Telegraph.co.uk, Telegraph.co.uk

Boris Johnson’s Conservatives are only eight points ahead of Labor, according to a poll for The Sunday Telegraph.

 

The ORB International survey for the newspaper puts the Tories on 36 per cent, with 28 for Labor, (per cent for the Liberal Democrats and 12 per cent for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party.)  

Undertaken on Wednesday and Thursday, the new poll is likely to spark concern within the Conservative campaign.

 

Experts warned that Mr Johnson will need to significantly increase his lead to besure of securing a majority.

 

Four separate polls conducted in the two weeks before gave the Conservatives a lead of between 13 and 16 points.

 

Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Professor Sir John Curtice said …