What did/does your dad do for a living? Well, Keir Starmer’s was a toolmaker.
If you didn’t know that already then, quite frankly, you haven’t been paying close enough attention to the 2024 UK General Election.
The fact there is still less than 24 hours to go until polling day on Thursday, July 4 means you’re running out of opportunities to hear the Labour leader repeat his favourite catchphrase – ‘my father was a toolmaker’. That’s a shame.
Of course, Starmer keeps bringing up his dad’s job to try and convince voters he is an everyday bloke from an everyday background as he bids to build the next UK government.
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And the data suggests it is working because he is on the course to become the next Prime Minister, but will his party win big enough to follow in the footsteps of New Labour in 1997? The latest Labour Party Seats odds can be found on the Paddy Power website and Paddy Power app.
It’s looking good for Labour because they are about 20 percentage points clear of the floundering Conservatives in the polls.
Despite needing the biggest swing since the Second World War to form a majority and take power, Starmer’s party appear to be on track to achieve just that.
The quirks of the First Past The Post voting system in the UK means Labour could be on course to win the bulk of the seats in the House of Commons despite being highly unlikely to win 50 per cent of the votes.
A range of 450-499 is the favourite in our Labour Party Seats betting market which would be enough to hand them a huge majority to govern – and bigger than Labour’s first win under Tony Blair.
More modest totals of 400-449 and 350-399 are rated as the next most likely outcomes by Paddy’s political traders.
*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change
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- Gallop over to Paddy Power News for all the latest betting tips
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