Johnson leads polls as election enters final days

Bloomberg

The UK is now in the final days of campaigning ahead of the December 12 general election. Polls in Sunday’s newspapers all give Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives a clear lead over Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, though they differ by how much.
Campaigners opposing Brexit are now urging voters who agree with them to vote “tactically” against the Tories— essentially backing the candidate most likely to beat the Conservative in their area. This, along with complacency among his supporters, is now the main threat to Johnson.
John McDonnell, Labour’s shadow chancellor, rejected the idea he was going soft on his socialist principles as he said he doesn’t want to end capitalism. Asked on the BBC whether he intended to overthrow capitalism and create a socialist state if his party were to win the election, McDonnell said he simply wanted to “transform” the British economy.
“I want to make sure our economy works for everybody,” he said. “It means transforming capitalism into a new form and I think there’s a real debate now happening — not just here, across Europe and America itself — about how our economy is failing the vast majority of our people. I think we can transform it in a way that meets the objective of having a much more equal, just economy, but also a much more successful one.” McDonnell also said it would be “relatively cheap” for his government to borrow money, given low interest rates.