Conservative candidate Tobias Ellwood has fiercely defended the Tories after a new poll has predicted a "wipe out" for the party at this July's General Election.
The polling, conducted exclusively by GB News and the Daily Mail, revealed that Rishi Sunak could lose most of the seats the party won in 2019, to well below 100 MPs in the next Parliament.
Other figures suggest that Sir Keir Starmer is on course for a majority of as much as 336 for Labour.
The Liberal Democrats will see a huge increase in their MPs to 39, with no tactical voting, or 59 MPs, allowing for tactical voting, despite winning just 10 per cent of the votes.
Reacting to the polling on GB News, Tobias Ellwood reassured that the election "is not today", and we are "not at the fourth of July yet".
Defending the Conservatives to host Patrick Christys, Ellwood claimed: "It's interesting you didn't mention the number of people yet to make their mind up.
"There's a substantial amount of the British electorate still waiting to see. We're back showing illustrating fiscal responsibility under Rishi Sunak, but we've still got to regain that trust with the British people."
Remaining hopeful for the Conservatives, Ellwood suggested that the "20 per cent of people who are undecided can actually see things tighten completely".
Ellwood told Patrick Christys that there is "still all to play for" ahead of the election on July 4.
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Patrick highlighted one of the more shocking parts of the GB News and Daily Mail poll, which suggests key figures such as Oliver Dowden, James Cleverly, Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt, Kemi Badenoch and Esther McVey could lose their seats.
When asked by Patrick if Rishi Sunak was "wrong" to call the election, Ellwood disagreed, stating: "You're trying to justify the polling as if that is the result. We're not there yet. The election is on July 4, not today.
"So you can read out your list of grandees, big names, the beasts that will fall, let's wait to see what actually happens."
Circling back to the voters in the poll who were still undecided, Ellwood reaffirmed that there is "a lot of electioneering" still to take place over the next few weeks.
Ellwood told GB News: "Like I said, there's 20 per cent of the electorate, a fifth of the voters yet to make up their minds. So they're going to listen very carefully to the arguments on both sides.
"It will come down to so often about who is going to be the best custodians of our economy. This is what Clinton said, it's the economy, stupid.
"Who's going to take Britain forward, particularly in these ever-turbulent times? That's the question that people answer on July 4, not today."
