Majority of Sky News YouGov voters panel still undecided on who to vote for just days before general election
A majority of people on the Sky News YouGov voters panel say they are still undecided who to vote for.
As the politicians make the last push for support, many on our panel say they are uninspired by all the main parties.
Of the 51 people who responded, 32 are still struggling with their choice.
One voter said: “I seem to change my mind almost from day to day.”
Another echoed this: “So many people are in the same boat. They don’t know who to vote for, or who will do a good job.”
The undecided voters could make a big difference come 4 July.
Among our panel, almost two-thirds of those who are undecided, live in constituencies which could flip at the election.
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Our panel, managed by pollster YouGov, represent different areas and a range of political views.
They all voted in 2019 and intend to vote this time too.
We asked our wavering voters why they can’t decide.
“I think there is a large disillusionment with politics in this country now,” one person told us.
Another said: “I see it more as a choice to pick who to not vote for rather than who to vote for.”
While some believe the result is a foregone conclusion: “I almost feel like, is there a point in me actually coming out to vote? Because Labour are going to win. The gap is just so big.”
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We dug deeper and asked our voters panel what would help sway their votes.
“Politicians now are just so out of touch with common people,” one person said.
“They’re not understanding how the cost of living affects people who are on minimum wage and how not being able to access an NHS doctor or an NHS dentist affects them.”
Several others mentioned the shortage of NHS dentists, and a lack of policy detail came up frequently.
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“I want to know how they’re going to look after people that rent properties… The wage increases, minimum wage, my wife’s on a minimum wage so we need to be better off financially,” one voter told us.
And there are also voters so disillusioned they cannot find any political home.
“Most of the people in my area… are of the opinion that they ain’t gonna bother voting because nobody cares about them anyway.”
And another told us “at the moment I’m going to be a last-minute decider”, undecided until the very end.
Nigel Farage has successfully exploited the Commons recess to “grab the mic” and “dominate” the agenda, Harriet Harman has said.
Speaking on Sky News’ Electoral Dysfunction podcast, the Labour peer said that the Reform UK leader has been able to “get his voice heard” while government was not in “full swing”.
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Mr Farage used a speech this week to set himself, rather than Kemi Badenoch’s Tories, up as the main opposition to Sir Keir Starmer at the next election.
The prime minister responded on Thursday with a speech attacking the Clacton MP.
Baroness Harman said: “It’s slightly different between opposition and government because in government, the ministers have to be there the whole time.
“They’ve got to be putting legislation through and they kind of hold the mic.
“They can dominate the news media with the announcements they’re making and with the bills they’re introducing, and it’s quite hard for the opposition to get a hearing whilst the government is in full swing.
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“What we used to do when we were in opposition before 1997 is that as soon as there was a bank holiday and the House was not sitting, as soon as the half-term or the summer recess, we would be on an absolute war footing and dominate the airwaves because that was our opportunity.
“And I think that’s a bit of what Farage has done this week,” Harman added.
“Basically, Farage can dominate the media agenda.”
She went on: “He’s kind of stepped forward, and he’s using this moment of the House not sitting in order to actually get his voice heard.
“It’s sensible for the opposition to take the opportunity of when the House is not sitting to kind of grab the mic and that is what Nigel Farage has done.”
But Baroness Harman said it “doesn’t seem to be what Kemi Badenoch’s doing”.
She explained that the embattled leader “doesn’t seem to be grabbing the mic like Nigel Farage has” during recess, and added that “there’s greater opportunity for the opposition”.
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