A top Tory is looking likely to keep his seat after Labor dumped a candidate from standing in east London.
Chingford and Woodford Green has been represented by the veteran Tory minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith since its creation in 1997. He held the predecessor seat of Chingford for five years before that, inheriting it from the Thatcher-era cabinet minister Norman Tebbit.
The former Conservative leader has previously told the Express.co.uk there “are still a huge number of Conservative voters angry with the Conservatives yet still unpersuaded by Labor and Starmer”.
Duncan Smith's Labor rival was meant to be Faiza Shaheen, however, she was blocked from running as a Labor candidate for liking a series of tweets that allegedly downplayed allegations of antisemitism and is now running as an independent.
Ms Shaheen, who came within 1,262 votes of topping Sir Iain in 2019, has been angered at her treatment by her former party.
In a letter published on X Ms Shaheen took a dig at Labor saying: “I have faced a relentless campaign of unfair treatment, bullying and hostility that I have never before experienced in all my personal or professional life,” she wrote in her resignation letter. .”
She continued: “I have been penalized for describing my experiences of Islamophobia and been dismayed at the hierarchy of racism that exists in my own party.”
And now Labor are set for more humiliation as the Conservatives are predicted to receive 43% per cent of the vote in this weeks General Election, down 4.7 per cent.
Brent councilor Shama Tatler who was parachuted in as the Labor candidate is predicted to only get 26 percent of the vote, down a whopping 19.4 percent.
While Ms Shaheen is not far behind her former party with a projected result of 18 percent, up 17.8 percent.