Tory leadership: Boris Johnson set for mammoth 140-seat majority, shock poll claims.
BORIS JOHNSON is set to receive a 140-seat majority in the Commons if elected party leader, a ComRes poll commissioned by The Telegraph has claimed.
Mr Johnson’s campaign is set to launch on Wednesday, with the former Foreign Minister expected to keep up his warning of “delay means Corbyn”. The poll which quizzed 2000 voters, found 27 percent felt Mr Johnson had what it took to be a good Prime Minister. It anticipated that if a general election were to take place with Mr Johnson at the helm, the Tories would secure 395 seats, Labour would get 151, a drop of 111 seats, and the Liberal Democrats would get 26.
The Brexit Party would win no seats.
At the last general election, Theresa May secured 317 seats, needing the 8 DUP seats to back the party in a confidence and supply agreement to hold on to power.
Dominic Raab would also nab the Conservatives the largest number of seats in a general election as party leader with 269, but they would be 57 short of a majority.
Meanwhile, the poll would make uneasy reading for International Development Secretary Rory Stewart who is forecast to win just 51 seats as Tory leader, with the Brexit Party cleaning up 252 seats, 74 short of a majority. Mail.
