Theresa May hits 50% in shock new poll as Ukip vote collapses since she called snap election putting Tories on course for landslide victory on June 8
That share of the vote would give the PM a bigger majority than Tony Blair gained in 1997
THERESA May is set to sweep to a landslide victory in the snap General Election after a shocking new poll suggested the Tories would get 50% of the votes.
That would give the Prime Minister a bigger majority on June 8 than Tony Blair gained in 1997, as another poll shows Ukip support is collapsing.
The figures in make grim reading for Jeremy Corbyn, after the question of who would make the best PM saw Mrs May winning with a whopping 62% share.
It also gives her a better rating than the Labour leader, Tim Farron and Paul Nuttall can muster combined.
In the Opinium poll for the Observer the Tories soared to 45%, moving from a lead of nine to 19% over Labour since Mrs May called the bombshell vote on June 8.
It also reveals Ukip has lost around a third of its support. falling 5% to just 9 points.
A third poll released this morning by YouGov for The Sunday Times gave the PM a commanding 23-point lead over Labour - 48% to 25% - putting the Tories on course for a whopping three-figure majority.
Another survey, this one for the Sunday Express, also revealed as many as one in seven Labour voters were planning to switch from red to blue on June 8.
Leadership and Brexit were said to be the main reasons for the mass defection giving an even further boost to the PM's campaign.
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But not every poll was so rosy for the PM, after figures released by the put her lead at just 11 points.
The results by Survation have the Conservatives on 40%, followed by Labour on 29% and the Lib Dems and Ukip level on 11%.
Polling expert Professor John Curtice told the paper if these figures were replicated on polling day that would give Mrs May a majority in the House of Commons of 46, up from her current figure of 17, but way below some forecasts she would get a bigger lead than Tony Blair's 179 majority twenty years ago.
After the terrible polling Mr Corbyn has launched a desperate bid to win votes by pledging to give the UK four new bank holidays if they hand him the keys to Number 10.
The news comes as Theresa May was branded "power hungry" by the EU's chief Brexit negotiator for calling a general election.
Guy Verhofstadt said the PM was was using the need to strengthen her hand in the upcoming talks as an excuse for grabbing more power.
The former Belgian prime minister branded the election a “power grab” by the Tories saying the wanted to take advantage of the disorganisation of the Labour Party.
He wrote in the Observer: “The theory espoused by some, that Theresa May is calling a general election on Brexit in order to secure a better deal with the EU, is nonsensical.
“We can only conclude that many British politicians and the media still don’t fathom how article 50 will work in practice.
“Will the election of more Tory MPs give Theresa May a greater chance of securing a better Brexit deal.
“For those sitting around the table in Brussels, this is an irrelevance.”
That cam as it is revealed Brits could be hit by tax hikes and higher spending on overseas aid if Theresa May wins the election, with the Tories accused of going for White Van Man by axing the Tax Lock.
On an extraordinary day of campaigning, the PM stunned her backbenchers by committing to carry on spending 0.7 per cent of economic output on aid.
She promised a radical review of the bloated £13billion-a-year overseas aid budget — to ensure the money is spent in the “most effective way”.
But staring down calls for the 0.7 per cent target to go, she insisted she was “very proud of the record” it gives Britain around the world.
Separately, in an extraordinary gaffe, Chancellor Philip Hammond paved the way for tax hikes for millions by hinting that David Cameron’s 2015 “Tax Lock” would be shelved.
Speaking in the US, he insisted he wanted full “flexibility” when it came to running the nation’s finances.
It sparked claims he wanted to revisit a ditched Budget Day increase in National Insurance for self-employed “strivers”.
Lib Dem chief Tim Farron said: “Philip Hammond is out to bash White Van Man yet again.”
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