Lightning strike more likely than Tory win, says Curtice
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking to members of the media during a huddle whilst visiting DCS Group in Banbury, Oxfordshire, while on the General Election campaign trail, July 2, 2024
THERE is more chance of lightning striking the same place twice than of the Tories winning the general election, Britain’s top polling expert said today.
Sir John Curtice told the BBC there was “more chance of lightning striking twice, in the same place, and a bit more” than Rishi Sunak still being in Downing Street by the weekend.
And in a bizarre finale to a largely unhinged Tory campaign, the Prime Minister appeared to concede that the country was going downhill.
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