Jeremy Hunt admits he’s 1,500 votes away from losing his seat as he says ‘there’s all to play for’ in desperate bid

JEREMY Hunt has admitted his political career hinges on just 1,500 seats.

The Chancellor made a desperate plea for support today as he delivered flyers in his leafy South West Surrey seat.

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In 2015 Mr Hunt bagged a majority of 30,000.

But now his seat is on a knife edge following a Lib Dem insurgency in the “Blue Wall”.

Polling aggregator Britain Elects currently predicts the constituency will fall.

If Ed Davey‘s party does boot Mr Hunt from office, he will become Britain’s first Chancellor to be ousted at an election.

Mr Hunt told Bloomberg: “This seat is probably going to be won or lost by the Conservatives by 1,500 votes or fewer.”

With his eye on the prize, he added that it would be bad “feng shui” to think about life after the election.

It comes as voters have been warned not to give Sir Keir Starmer a “blank cheque” by handing Labour a “super-majority”.

Grant Shapps warned a crushing election victory for Sir Keir would give him “unchecked power” while top Tory Miriam Cates told our Never Mind The Ballots show the Labour chief would be Tony Blair “on steroids”.

The Defence Secretary blasted that the “country doesn’t function well” when either party has a three-figure majority in the House of Commons.

Mr Shapps insisted the Tories were still fighting for “every seat” and “no one’s cast a vote” as the election campaign hits the halfway stage.

Speaking to Times Radio, he said: “You want to make sure that in this next government, whoever forms it, that there’s a proper system of accountability.

“You don’t want to have somebody receive a super majority.

“And in this case, of course, the concern would be that if Keir Starmer were to go into No.10 and that power was in some way unchecked.

“It would be very bad news for people in this country… A blank cheque approach, allowing (them) to do anything they wanted, particularly when their particular set of plans are so vague. 

“They say change, but you’ve no idea what they actually want to change to, other than the fact that they’d outlined plans which would cost £2,094 to every working family in this country.

“If you ended up with a party with a massive majority, unchecked power, able to do anything that they wanted.

“With the instincts of… Keir Starmer’s party on all sorts of things, from raising people’s tax to their lack of support for increased defence spending, we think that would be a dangerous place to put this country.”

The most recent YouGov MRP poll, which predicts seat-by-seat results across the country, predicted Labour would win a mammoth majority of 194 – larger than Blair’s in 1997 and more than double the 2019 Tory majority.

The Tory vote share has also been stung by Nigel Farage’s return to lead Reform and stand for election in Clacton, with the upstarts scoring a four-point poll boost.

A poll released by YouGov last night put Labour on 38 per cent, with the Tories on 18 per cent and Reform only one point behind on 17 per cent.

And in a poll conducted by Lord Ashcroft, the Tories’ vote share fell further from 23 per cent to 21 per cent last week, while Reform were just six points behind on 15 per cent.