Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Conservative party candidate for the Mansfield constituency Ben Bradley speaks with people as they campaign in Mansfield, Britain, November 16, 2019. Frank Augstein/Pool via REUTERS
Reuters: UK PM Johnson's Conservatives have highest support since 2017: polls
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party have the highest level of support since 2017, according to opinion polls published on Saturday.
The Dec. 12 election was called to end three years of disagreement over Brexit that has sapped investors’ faith in the stability of the world’s fifth largest economy and damaged Britain’s standing since it voted in a 2016 referendum to leave the European Union.
Johnson, 55, hopes to win a majority to push through the last-minute Brexit deal he struck with the EU last month after the bloc granted a third delay to the divorce that was originally supposed to take place on March 29. Voters in 2016 referendum narrowly voted in favor of leaving the EU.
Johnson’s Conservatives lead Labour by 10-17 percentage points, four polls published on Saturday show.
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WNU Editor: Here is an interesting analysis on Boris Johnson's appeal .... The poshest working-class hero since Winston Churchill: Despite his gilded path to Number 10, the Prime Minister's blue collar fan base dwarfs Jeremy Corbyn's, writes DOMINIC SANDBROOK (Daily Mail). The momentum is clearly favouring Boris Johnson. But I think it is more about the electorate giving the finger to the political establishment over Brexit than the image that Boris Johnson's is trying to cultivate. My prediction still holds. It will be a massive parliamentary landslide for the Conservatives.
