UK Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride on Thursday told Sky News he sees his Conservative Party headed to an absolutely horrific defeat in the snap election, saying rival Labour is looking at the “largest majority that this country has ever seen, much greater than even 1997’s landslide.”
One poll found Labour winning 484 of the 650 seats up, many more than the 418 won by Tony Blair in 1997 and the Tories hanging on to just 64 seats – the fewest since the party’s founding in 1834.