Johnson's Conservatives lead Labour as campaign enters final stretch: Poll

Boris Johnson’s Conservatives hold a solid lead over Labour in a couple of key weekend opinion polls as campaigning enters the final stretch of what’s been a bitterly contested general election.

According to a Savanta ComRes poll for The Sunday Telegraph, the Tories’ lead fell to 8 percentage points, back to where it was shortly before the starting pistol was officially fired on the campaign. That would be enough to secure a parliamentary majority of 14, the report said.

An Opinium poll in the Observer suggests Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party failed to make any inroads in the past week, with the Conservatives