British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is speculated to lose his own seat in the parliament as revealed by a UK poll, The Sunday Times reported on Saturday.
A new poll showed that Johnson is losing his grip on the “red wall” seats that propelled him to power at the 2019 general election, noting that neither of the two main political parties is likely to win an outright majority at the next general election until 2024.
More than 22,000 people were surveyed in a constituency-by-constituency poll, which was conducted by the research data company Focaldata, over a four-week period in December.
The so-called multi-level regression and post-stratification (MRP) poll indicated that the ruling Conservatives would lose 81 seats, wiping out the 80-seat majority.
This would leave the Conservatives with 284 seats, while the opposition Labour Party would win 282 seats.
Johnson might lose his own seat of Uxbridge, west of London, the poll found.
He won a remarkable election victory last year, which allowed him to take Britain out of the European Union's orbit on New Year's Eve after almost half a century of close ties.
However, his premiership may increasingly be defined by the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has already killed more than 74,000 people and crushed the economy.
The MRP poll is the first detailed analysis of the British’s views on the prime minister’s way of handling the Brexit talks, which was carried out over a four-week period in December, when Christmas was cancelled for millions of families as a new strain of coronavirus spread through the country.
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