Britain | Pick your projection
What police commissioners tell you about the British election
Neither Labour landslide nor hung Parliament
Political junkies have lots of electoral forecasts to choose from, The Economist’s included. That gives them a confusing range of possible outcomes to pore over. Some models predict a landslide victory for Labour; Electoral Calculus, a consultancy, reckons that the Tories would scrape fewer than 100 seats if an election were held tomorrow.
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Britain May 18th 2024
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