Quote: Chris Hallam @ 27th June 2017, 5:25 PMWhat do you mean?
Well, as an example, the Conservatives this month polled more individual votes than Blair's Labour received in 1997 - yet that equates to 0.9 points less of the total vote share. But that 0.9% manages to equate to 101 seats.
Similarly, the party's 2017 result was an increase in both vote share and total individual votes on 2015, yet results in 13 fewer seats.
So whilst it's totally accurate to say that they have failed to secure a thumping majority for a long time, to paint that as an outright failure and imply a drop in support for the Conservative party across the country, is incorrect. There's a lot more very interesting stuff going on behind the headline figures.