Evening Standard survey shows a majority now want a General Election.

 

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An Ipsos survey for the London Evening Standard, shows that 51% of respondents want a General Election this year, regardless of who becomes the next Tory leader and the next UK Prime Minister. 

Whoever, is elected the next Tory leader on 5th September, they will be the third Conservative Prime Minister in the last 6 years, to have been anointed Prime Minister without being elected by the general electorate. 

Those who participated in the Evening Standard survey felt that the country is in crisis and needs to find a way forward (46%). Some 39% want to change the Government and 38% of respondents say that the public should be more involved in decision making. Crucially, some 37% of respondents, said that the next Tory Prime Minister will not have won a General Election. 

Once again, the fate of the nation and the next UK Prime Minister will be decided by some 160,000 Conservative Party members. They represent 0.3% of the UK total electorate. Demographically, the people who will decide who is to be the next UK Prime Minister, are male (63%). Some 39%, are aged 65+ (36% 25-49), and 80% are in the Upper, Middle, and Lower middle classes. Some 36%, live in London and the South and around 76%, voted to leave the E.U. and are pro-Brexit.