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Public ‘stopped listening’ to Tories as poll shows electoral disaster

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The public have “stopped listening” to the Tories and are tired of the party’s “navel gazing”, a Cabinet minister has warned.

It comes as a poll suggested Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives could be reduced to fewer than 100 MPs at the general election.

The minister suggested an early general election might be the Tories’ best hope as it would put Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour under greater scrutiny.

Unease about the Prime Minister’s leadership will have been fuelled by a major poll which indicated Labour is on course for a landslide win, with a projected 286-seat majority.

The unnamed Cabinet minister quoted in the

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