The Daily Telegraph – Tories facing 1997-style wipeout

A survey suggests the Tories face huge losses in the next election – with Labour ending up with a 120-seat majority, The Daily Telegraph reports.

The right-wing broadsheet, which is broadly supportive of the Conservative Party, carries a new poll which forecasts a Tory wipeout on a level similar to 1997, when Labour’s Tony Blair won in a landslide. If the YouGov poll bears out at the election, the Tories would retain just 169 seats, the paper says.