Yahoo News 'I feel sorry for Rishi Sunak and his lack of Sky TV - but I still won't vote for him'
The North Somerset constituency has been a Conservative stronghold for almost 100 years. And Dr Liam Fox has been the MP for the constituency - which used to be know as Woodspring - since 1992.
In the 2019 general election, Dr Fox won the North Somerset seat with a majority of 17,536 votes. But will he be able to retain his seat this time when the nation goes to the polls in a few weeks.
A recent YouGov poll projects that Labour candidate Sadik Al-Hassan will secure 40 per cent of the vote in North Somerset, potentially displacing the incumbent Conservative candidate. Dr Fox is currently predicted to receive 35 per cent of the vote.
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Meanwhile, Alexander Kokkinoftas (Reform UK) is projected to get 10 per cent, Ash Cartman ( Liberal Democrats ) 8 per cent, and Oscar Livesey Lodwick (Green Party) 6 per cent of the vote. We headed out to Nailsea to speak to residents to gauge whether residents believed the Conservatives still had a chance of winning the General Election on July 4.
And if they were more likely to vote Conservative if it was former Prime Minister Boris Johnson still in charge, rather than Rishi Sunak. Most residents we spoke to believed it was unlikely that the Tories would win the general election, although many still seemed to support the party.
One resident remarked that they felt "the majority wouldn't be as large as people think it will be," while another highlighted that "many of us just want a change", and one resident even questioned whether the Conservative party wanted to win this election.
When asked about who they preferred as party leader Boris Johnson or Rishi Sunak? One described Boris Johnson as a "lying child of privilege [who seemed to think that] the norms which apply to everyone else didn't apply to him."
Despite this, most interviewees took a more favourable view of Johnson, considering him a better leader than Rishi Sunak. With one interviewee commenting "we lack statesmen [..] Boris was one of the last."
Although a few interviewees seemed to have a slight preference for Sunak, none of these appeared likely to vote for the Conservatives, viewing Sunak as the "lesser of two evils." One voter mocked Sunak, saying they "empathised with [Sunak]" for not being able to afford Sky TV.
