London | A trio of senior Tory donors has decided against giving money to the party’s general election campaign after commissioning private polling showing Rishi Sunak is heading for an electoral rout.

The donors, who have collectively given more than £5 million ($9.6 million) to the Conservatives, decided to organise their own survey after feeling mistrustful of claims by Tory campaign figures that the party’s prospects were not as bad as public polling suggested.

Financial Times