Britain’s Conservatives facing a possible ‘wipeout’ on Election Day

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The British Conservative party, which has ruled the country for 14 years, is facing what some polls say could be a total wipeout in the upcoming elections. It’s a far cry from the landslide election won by the Tories under then Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2019. The party is now polling so badly that some political observers are wondering if it will even survive in its current form, postelection day. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry has more.

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