The poll suggests Sir Keir Starmer's party has won with an estimated overall majority of 170 seats - while the Conservatives, led by Rishi Sunak, look likely to record their lowest seat tally in the party's history.
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
    11·
    6 months ago

    The decline of Sunak shows how important perceptions are in politics. Once feted as a brilliant money man, he proved utterly incompetent as a leader. And once that slide started he couldn’t stop it.

    As far as I know, all the papers have endorsed Labour (probably not the Daily Mail).

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      6 months ago

      Yes Sunak failed dismally as a leader. Though there are other factors at play as well. He inherited a poisoned chalice, due to the several factors, some of which were:

      • The Tories had been in power for too many years, and were at the end of the natural cycle of power that occurred in the parliamentary system.
      • The decisions of some of his incompetent predecessors that hung over him (especially those of Liz Truss).
      • The rise of nationalism/extreme right wing politics, and UKIP/the Reform party eating into the Tory voter base (which has been happening for many years but has escalated in recent years).

      He did, however, manage to expedite his own political demise with his clueless detachment from what regular citizens are dealing with and the aftermath of Brexit (which his party was mostly responsible for).

      • xploit@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 months ago

        “He did, however, manage to expedite his own political demise with his clueless detachment from what regular citizens are dealing with and the aftermath of Brexit (which his party was mostly responsible for).”

        His aunt and uncle are reasonably wealthy (think doctor/lawyer, IIRC), but fairly down to earth people, and even they don’t like him…his own family, I mean I can’t blame them that’s for sure.

      • ABCDE@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 months ago

        Reform is currently eating into the Labour vote in huge amounts also (thus far, we’ve only seen expected Labou results thus far).

      • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
        01·
        6 months ago

        Reform is only picking up about 13 seats, with the tories losing around 230. It doesnt look like they were much of a factor.

  • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    6 months ago

    I feel like the Tories lost this election rather than labour winning it.