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Early this month the National Opinion Poll gave Labour a lead of 12.4 per cent and the Gallup Poll forecast an 11 per cent Labour margin...
...Labour can surpass their two per cent margin at the last election, Wilson should walk into Parliament in April with a substantial majority...
...moment, Labour is talking not of a substantial majority but of obliterating the Tories and even of unseating Edward Heath...
...polls are correct, Wilson should have no trouble serving until 1971. In the 1964 general elections, Labour, by polling 44.8 per cent of the votes in Great Britain, won 314 constituencies; the Conservatives, with 42.9 per cent of the vote, gained 304. The liberals won nine seats...
Compared with 1964, Gallup is discerning a four and a half per cent shift to Labour which would be enough to win Labour 77 seats now held by the Conservatives and to give Wilson a majority of 167. The National Opinion Poll is showing a swing to Labour of five and a quarter per cent, enough to give Labour a majority over the Conservatives of around 190. If the swing is 4.3 per cent or more, Heath will lose his own constituency of Bexley...