It never rains but it pours. Rachel Reeves really isn’t having a good time at the Treasury. First, there was the £1bn winter fuel U-turn. Then, came the £1.5bn welfare concessions. And now, some new polling has dropped which makes for grim reading for the Chancellor. LabourList has this morning published the latest findings from its most recent poll of Labour members.
Reeves is the runaway favourite to be sacked in the next reshuffle, with 46 per cent of the 1,304 respondents supporting her removal. Next up in the sack race stakes is Liz Kendall on 42 per cent, following the outcry over her proposed changes to disability benefits. Bronze medal is taken by the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, amid some internal discomfort over his stark comments on the NHS, followed by David Lammy in fourth.
At the other end of the table is Angela Rayner, with only four per cent of card-carrying activists hoping that the Deputy PM gets culled. Ed Miliband is the next most popular member of the cabinet. Just six per cent of Labourites hope that the ex-leader is purged: most of them seemingly work in No. 10. Third most popular are John Healey at Defence and Angela Smith in the Lords.
Food for thought perhaps for Sir Keir as he desperately tries to reboot his flailing government…
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