Scroll down to use the Mail's interactive guide to the 132 constituencies where tactical voting could stop Labour getting a supermajorityWhat has Sir Keir Starmer done to deserve a super-majority? Did he save a drowning puppy? Did he win the Victoria Cross?
Don't surrender your voice... just get out and make your vote count, writes Prime Minister RISHI SUNAK Your vote counts – 130,000 of you can stop the supermajority that Sir Keir Starmer craves. Reform won’t deny Starmer the supermajority he wants because whether you think it is fair or not, they just won’t win enough seats to oppose Labour.
I love this country. My grandparents came here with very little, yet today I have the honour of serving as your Prime Minister. I will work night and day for you, to deliver a Britain with lower taxes, secure borders and strong defences. I know people are frustrated with me, with our party. But this election will have lasting consequences.
Your vote can make it more likely that your Conservative candidate is elected so that they can be your voice, represent your values and fight for you and your area. And prevent Labour from rewriting the rules so they can stay in power for decades if they win. We can all agree that they made mistakes. How, over 14 years in office, could they not have done? But what abomination merits annihilation on such a scale? Did they mount a coup attempt? Collaborate with enemy powers? Lose a war?Cast your mind back to 2010, when Gordon Brown was dragged kicking and screaming from No 10, his Chief Secretary helpfully leaving a note to tell his successor that there was no money left.
So vast have been the increases that figure is now above £700million. We should have used a bigger bus. How else are we to describe his insistence last month that he would let a loved one remain on an NHS waiting list for surgery rather than use private healthcare? David Cameron inherited a larger deficit than that of Greece. But, with careful stewardship, the British economy grew faster than any comparable EU state right up to the lockdownThe more the state does, the more it needs to spend. That is why Labour always – always – ends up raising taxes.
If you want us to sidle back apologetically to the EU, cancel the Rwanda scheme and give the vote to 16-year-olds, that is of course your right. We are a democracy. Starmer’s own approval ratings are dismal: polls by Ipsos and YouGov in May had it at minus 18 and minus 20 points respectively If anyone has any doubts about how depressing a sweeping Labour triumph will be, just imagine the celebrations inside Whitehall, home to the sclerotic, obstructive civil service blob. Right-on pressure groups will feel all their Christmases have come at once, as will the BBC.
Yes, this process – which bestows strong administration and stability by focusing electoral rewards on the winning party rather than distributing them proportionately on the basis of vote share – could hand Starmer a landslide not at all commensurate with the popular vote.The Conservative-held marginal seats that Labour is counting on could evaporate dramatically if small numbers of voters change their minds. And that could undoubtedly happen.
In a string of Tory battleground seats, like Dunstable, Wyre Forest and North Somerset, the results could be decided by a few hundred votes either way. At the very least, in our two-party system, every government – especially one that will be as doctrinaire as Starmer’s – needs a powerful opposition. Mr Sunak acknowledges that people are ‘frustrated with me, with our party’ after a tough period in which Britain has been hit by Covid and the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Sunak points to analysis suggesting that as few as 130,000 voters in key seats could change the course of the election, and says that a ‘huge number of seats in this election will be decided by a few hundred votes’.