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A tactical voting hit list has been produced by campaign group Best for Britain which has placed removing Rishi Sunak from his Richmond and North Allerton seat in Yorkshire as its top priority.
The centre left campaign group which was set up to stop Brext has identified other prominant targets on the list including leadership hopefuls Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and Penny Mordaunt with home secretary James Cleverly, former prime minister Liz Truss and former home secretary Priti Patel.
It comes after MRP polling over the weekend suggested the Conservatives could end up with a historic low number seats with a mere 72.
Best for Britain are making recommendations in 452 seats recommending with 371 for Labour, 69 for the Lib Dems, seven for the SNP, three for the Greens and two for Plaid Cymru.
They also want to stop Reform getting a foothold in parliament and, a day after The Independent revealed Labour are second place in Clacton, Best for Britain confirmed Labour’s Jovan Osueu-Nepaul is best placed to beat Nigel Farage.
Best for Britain’s chief executive Naomi Smith insisted that the organisation was providing a roadmap for people who had indicated they were wanting to vot tactically to maximise the vote for the cente left.
Ms Smith said there needed “to be some give and take” among centre left parties so Green voters voting for Labour tactically in one part of the country “know there is a pay off in another part of the country.”
She said that four in 10 voters had indicated an interest in voting tactically with the highest proportion in Mr Sunak’s constituency.
She said: “The damage of 14 years of mismanagement by this Government will take years to repair. Significant improvements like democratic reforms, fixing the Brexit deal and meaningful climate action could take even longer.
“For this reason, it is important that this Government is dealt a massive blow at the election to reduce the chance of them securing power again after five years. Tactical voting can ensure they return the smallest number of MPs possible.”
She went on: ”The current Conservative Party is almost unrecognisable from the one that took office in 2010. Similar to the Republicans in the USA, populists within the Conservative Party will seek to further radicalise their policy platform even in opposition, moving it further to the right and focused on both increasing divisions in the UK and removing democratic safeguards. Tactical voting can remove people like this from positions of influence within the parliamentary Conservative party.
“Our MRP analysis showed that many high profile Conservatives could be at risk if people vote tactically including Jacob Rees Mogg, Suella Braverman and Liz Truss. Tactical voting will be essential to preventing Nigel Farage gaining a foothold in Parliament and frustrating his ambition to take over the Tory Party.”
