If Labour wins the general election it will need an “effective opposition” in Parliament, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has told the BBC.
Mr Hunt is the latest senior Conservative to publicly acknowledge his party could be on course for defeat.
He urged people not to vote for Reform UK, claiming this would result in fewer centre-right MPs.
Earlier, Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride said opinion polls suggested Labour was heading towards “the largest majority virtually in the history of this country”.
And last week Grant Shapps urged voters not to give Labour a “supermajority”, with the party’s power “unchecked”.
With the Tories losing support to Reform, senior figures have repeatedly warned that backing Nigel Farage’s party would split the centre-right vote, benefiting Labour.
Rishi Sunak insists he is still fighting to win.
Privately, many Conservative candidates are fairly open about their belief that victory is implausible and that their party should instead hope to limit the scale of a Labour victory.
However, it is only in this last week senior Tories have publicly raised this prospect in an apparent change of strategy.
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