A General Election poll has put the Conservatives behind the Brexit Party (Image: GETTY )
However the Conservatives would still take more seats, with 179 versus 49 for the Brexit Party. According to the poll Labour would win the election by taking 27 percent of the vote, allowing them to form a minority government. Applied across the country the poll suggests 46 Conservative MPs would lose their seats to the Brexit Party, including Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt and party chairman Brandon Lewis.
Other senior Tories, including former Cabinet Ministers Boris Johnson and Iain Duncan Smith, would be ousted by the Labour Party.
The poll was commissioned by Brexit Express, a eurosceptic campaign group, and first published in The Sunday Telegraph.
Brexit Express was founded by businessman Jeremy Hosking, who has already gifted £200,000 to the Brexit Party.
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph Andrew Hawkins, chairman of the ComRes polling company, said the poll was a “disaster” for the Tory party.
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