Veterans of the 1997 election remember the shock fall of Michael Portillo. This time, several Conservative big-hitters are vulnerable with the Liberal Democrats targeting key bricks of the “Blue Wall” across southern England.
On the Lib Dem hitlist for this year’s “Portillo moment” is Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who in 2019 won a majority of 8,817 in South West Surrey. That would already be marginal given the state of the polls on Thursday and recent by-election results. But boundary changes mean that his new constituency of Godalming and Ash is very much in opposition sights.
