UK election 2019: Jeremy Corbyn insists - experts are wrong, we’ll win
Jeremy Corbyn insists the polls have got it wrong about a Tory majority or hung parliament, and Labour will win outright.
Jeremy Corbyn has insisted Labour will win the general election, as Britain prepares to go to the polls on Thursday.
The Labour leader told the BBC that not only have the polls got it wrong about the election being so tight it could be a hung parliament, with a Labour coalition in power, he believed Labour would win outright. A surge in support for tactical voting, and, incredibly, situations where Liberal Democrats are actively supporting the Labour candidate in certain seats are hurting the Tories.
“I think the support is growing, and there’s a greater understanding that we cannot go on with under-funded public services,” Mr Corbyn said, as MPs embarked on a frenzied last day of campaigning across the country.
“I’ve got a hunch that all the experts elsewhere may just have got it wrong.”
“We’re going to win this thing.”
Mr Corbyn says the first thing he would look for in government was to help the homeless very quickly and very urgently.
The latest YOuGov poll shows Labour narrowing the gap and while the Tories are ahead, the national percentage vote is not uniform around the country. Around 40 seats of the 650 will determine which party forms government.
Conservative leader Boris Johnson started the day delivering milk at dawn in Yorkshire and will continue campaigning with a stump speech in London later in the evening.
When asked if he he’ll be moving back into No 10 Downing Street on Friday, he said: “It’s very, very tight.”
Mr Johnson’s nervousness is exacerbated by the disastrous polling company predictions of the 2017 election which on the eve of the vote had Theresa May so far ahead in the polls here majority was tipped at 50 plus. Less than 24 hours later she was decimated and could only form a coalition government.
“I think you’ve seen what the polls say, we all remember what happened in 2017,” Mr Johnson said.
“Of course we’re fighting now for every vote,” he said.
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