How worried should the Conservatives be about the latest opinion poll which suggests the party is in for a hiding at the general election, which we now know is scheduled for autumn? Of course, all polls come with a health warning, and the stock line when your party is behind is to say the only poll that matters is on election day. But if the poll is anywhere near accurate, Rishi Sunak is going to need to pull a political rabbit out of the hat if he is to avoid a historic drubbing of the kind we saw in 1997. Labour went into that election with a poll lead of between 10% and 15%, but was ultra-c…
