Could Corbyn’s party win as few as 100 seats at the general election? Given the Ukip collapse and the Lib Dem surge, it may well happen
It being no easy task to predict the past, we can still wonder whether the local election results were aftershocks of an earthquake we’ve had, or foreshocks of the quake to come. We know that the Tories did pretty well, that Labour came a poor second, that Ukip collapsed and the Lib Dems disappointed. Thus have the runes been read as an indication of how the June general election would go. Perhaps I can interest you in a slightly different interpretation. The news from the doorstep in the Labour heartlands is that voters were able to say they’d definitely vote for their Labour councillors. When asked about their intentions for the general election, ‘We’ll have to see,’ they were saying. ‘It depends on the candidates.’ This is a polite way of saying they wouldn’t vote Labour in June if the party were led by a mystic mix of Clement Attlee...
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