This week the Tories will face the first of two elections next month, in what could be a disastrous set of polls for Britain’s current governing party. Local council elections will take place on Thursday with the Tories expected to lose up to a fifth of their councillors. Later in the month, Mr Farage looks set to win the EU Parliament election as over a 50 percent share of Tory voters intend to back his newly formed party.
The Tories predicted losses could be because almost a third of party voters feel the Conservatives have failed to establish themselves as a pro-Brexit party.
Just 29 percent of those who voted for Theresa May’s party in 2017 see the Tories as being pro-Brexit, with 31 percent seeing them as anti-Brexit, according to polling from YouGov of 1,730 people conducted from April 24-25.
A separate poll, also conducted by YouGov, found that half of Tory voters in the 2017 general election intent to vote for Mr Farage’s Brexit Party in the EU elections.
The poll surveyed 5,412 people from April 23-26 and
