UK’s Johnson ahead but polls suggest majority might be tough 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy ReutersLONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson is heading into Britain’s election next week with a lead in opinion polls, but some of the surveys also suggest that his chance of winning a parliamentary majority could be too close to call. Known as an MRP poll – an acronym for its Multilevel Regression and Post-stratification model – it predicted 93% of results in individual constituencies correctly. But tactical voting by 41,000 voters in just 36 swing seats could prevent Johnson from getting a majority, it said. “This election is on a knife-edge,” the group’s chief executive Naomi Smith said.

Source: Manila Bulletin December 08, 2019 05:48 UTC