Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said he has “always accepted” he has a marginal seat, when asked if he feels vulnerable in his constituency ahead of the election.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: “Well, I've always accepted, actually, that I have a marginal seat, and I always have done.
“I've fought this seat and not won it in the past, so I'm in that unusual position of having already experienced that before.”
Asked how he thinks the election campaign is going more generally, he said: “There are a lot of people out there who still say that they are undecided.”
He added: “I think that, in this last or second half of the campaign, people will be focusing on what it would really mean to have that change of government and in particular if there was unchecked power.”
On whether he thinks this is a good time for an election, Mr Shapps said: “It's a decision only a prime minister can make.”
Asked if he can envisage Reform UK's Nigel Farage being elected and then crossing the floor to the Conservatives and being elected leader, Mr Shapps said: “Anyone is welcome to be a Conservative, but you can't be Conservative if you belong to another party. , and if indeed you stand against the party, so that's how Conservative membership and indeed membership for all parties works.”
He added: “If you want to renounce your own party and cross the floor, then of course we look at those cases on an individual basis. But, to be clear, there is only one outcome of people voting Reform in this election, to give (Labour leader Sir) Keir Starmer a supermajority.”