Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Former Conservative deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine has told Sky News that the Tories would not win an election.

"The issue is can the Brexit aspect of the Tory party peel off enough Labour votes, enough Labour marginal constituencies, to counter the number that the Tories are going to lose,'' he said.

They are going to lose seats in Scotland and seats to the Lib Dems. I think they have alienated the Irish to such an extent that they won’t come back and support them, so you can see quite clearly where the Tories are going to lose seats. And I know where they think they can win Labour seats, but when it comes to it that’s a pretty big gamble.

"My own guess is that a general election will be a re-run of what we have today – another period of uncertainty.''