{"id":121591,"date":"2023-11-27T09:19:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T09:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=121591"},"modified":"2023-11-27T09:19:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T09:19:51","slug":"sunaks-tories-face-an-election-wipeout-but-this-woman-will-defy-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/politics\/sunaks-tories-face-an-election-wipeout-but-this-woman-will-defy-the-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunaks Tories face an election wipeout but this woman will defy the odds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rishi Sunak clashes with Keir Starmer at PMQs over the NHS<\/h3>\n

According to recent polls the Conservatives are set to lose more than 300 seats at the next election unless Rishi Sunak turns things around.<\/p>\n

But, however bad the polls get, the prediction website Electoral Calculus keeps projecting that the Conservatives will make a single gain.<\/p>\n

So even if they fall below 100 seats in Parliament and easily do worse than their two previous biggest distaters in 1906 (156 seats) and 1997 (165 seats), the party is set to win one seat it did not hold before.<\/p>\n

The last two weekly Techne UK polls both suggest that things could be so bad for the Conservatives that Rishi Sunak would be the first Prime Minister in British history to lose his seat in a general election.<\/p>\n

But, according to the number crunching, Harriet Cross, the Tory candidate for Gordon and Banff will be victorious and gain her party a seat even on a historically disastrous night.<\/p>\n

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Who is Harriet Cross?<\/h3>\n

Harriet Cross is not a professional politician who has been parachuted into a winnable seat but soneone who has had a normal career which is part of her community in Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old grew up in Ireland and moved to the north east of Scotland in her teens before going to Imperial College London to study zoology and later Reading University to do a masters in rural land and business management.<\/p>\n

She now works as a chartered rural surveyor in Aberdeenshire living with hr partner Tom and their black labrador Mia (who features in a lot of her election literature).<\/p>\n

Cross is focussed on local campaigns such as upgrading local roads the A96 and A90 as well as reopening a local hospital in Insch.<\/p>\n

But, crucially, she is backing more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea, something which the SNP now opposes but supports scores of jobs in the constituency she hopes to win.<\/p>\n

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