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Politics

Why Tories are talking up Labour

29 April 2017

9:00 AM

29 April 2017

9:00 AM

Considering that their party is expected to win by a landslide, the Tory spin doctors sound unusually panicked. They are keen to point out that the polls aren’t always right, and the pollsters are still trying to correct what they got wrong at the last general election. They insist that national voting tells you little about what will happen in the key marginal seats.

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