UK General Elections: British PM Theresa May faces smaller election win over taxing the wealthy
British Prime Minister Theresa May is on course to win Thursday’s election by a much smaller margin than previously predicted, opinion polls showed on Saturday, as her campaign stumbled again, this time over taxation for the wealthy.
In a sign of how far her snap election gamble has soured, May’s personal rating turned negative for the first time in a poll conducted by research firm Comres since she won the top job in the turmoil following the June 23 Brexit referendum.
Comres found the Conservative Party’s lead stood at 12 percentage points, unchanged from a week ago but far below the 21-point lead it recorded just before she called the election on April 18.
An Opinium poll for the Observer newspaper suggested May was set for a substantial parliamentary majority on June 8, though her lead over the opposition Labour Party has fallen to six percentage points from 19 points at the start of the campaign.
Just five days before polls open, May’s campaign sent conflicting messages on taxation for top earners, an issue which the Conservatives are sensitive about because the opposition Labour Party casts them as the party of the rich and privileged.
May insisted nothing had changed on her tax policy – …read more