General election latest: Tory victory on July 4 not ‘the most likely outcome’, admits Hunt

The Tories must focus on winning over the “very, very many people” who are still “genuinely undecided” over the next two weeks, Lord Howard said as he argued the general election on July 4 was not yet done and dusted. 

The former leader of the Conservative Party was asked about a poll for The Telegraph which showed the Tories could end up with just 53 seats. 

He told GB News: “I can only talk from my own experience. I’ve been on the doorstep every day this week. And apart from today, when I had a very positive response, on the other days, what’s become clear is that there are very, very many people who haven’t made up their minds, who are genuinely undecided. 

“And I think the task that faces the Conservative Party in the two weeks that remain of the campaign, is to persuade those people who haven’t made up their minds that we have genuinely turned the corner.

“We’ve now got the lowest inflation rate in the G7 apart from Italy, the highest growth rate in the G7, apart from Canada, which is the same as ours. And after all of the hard times that we’ve been through, because of COVID, because of the war, because of the increase in the price of energy, we have now turned the corner. 

“We have a really good future ahead of us if we stick to the Conservatives, and stick to the plan. That’s what we’ve got to try and persuade people of in the two weeks that remain of the campaign.”