It comes as Rishi Sunak said that Boris Johnson’s intervention in the campaign “will make a difference” to the Conservatives, after the former prime minister released videos and letters in support of candidates.
The Prime Minister spent the day campaigning in North Devon with Lord Cameron, as they aimed to persuade farmers that the Tories were the party for rural communities.
The Foreign Secretary urged farmers not to turn to the Liberal Democrats, who have been focusing their efforts on the Blue Wall, as he claimed they were “simply an echo” of Labour.
“If you are worried by these polls and think somehow we might not win, but it’s important that they’re there to hold any future government to account, it’s really important you vote Conservative.
“You vote for anybody else, you vote for the Liberal Democrats, they won’t hold Labour to account. They’re not a force to confront them, they’re simply an echo of them.”
“They would make them worse. More taxes, more spending, more borrowing, more wokery, more nonsense. They wouldn’t hold them back, they’d encourage them to go further.”
The Ipsos poll also estimated that Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, would win his seat in Clacton and the party would return a total of three MPs.
It found that Jeremy Corbyn would lose his seat of Islington North to the new Labour challenger.
The MRP (multiple regression and post stratification) surveyed almost 20,000 UK adults to predict the results in each constituency up for election on July 4.
