So much for the honeymoon. Liz Truss closes her first ‘proper’ fortnight of politics this weekend with her backbenchers in open revolt and talk already building of a mounting government U-turn. There have been plenty of damning verdicts on last Friday’s ‘mini Budget’ but none more so than the YouGov poll which put Labour a whopping 33 points ahead of the Truss’s Tories.
And now Mr S brings news of fresh woe to the under-fire PM as she battles to save her premiership. A poll by Redfield and Wilton of Conservative voters at the 2019 election shows just how few were impressed with the headline measures of her first fiscal event. Nearly three times as many (56 per cent) oppose lifting the bankers’ bonuses cap versus 19 per cent who support the move. And nearly half (45 per cent) do not want Truss and Kwarteng to cut the top rate of tax from 45p to 40p versus 30 per cent who back the cut.
To add insult to injury a mere 26 per cent of 2019 voters prefer Truss to Boris Johnson, the man who she replaced. Some 60 per cent think he would be a better Prime Minister in the current cost-of-living crisis. Still, at last our incumbent leader is still preferred (just) to Rishi Sunak: 46 per cent of 2019 Tories prefer her to the 39 per cent who clearly remain Ready4Rishi. Some 927 voters were polled, with fieldwork conducted between Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 this week.
Some two thirds do not have a mortgage but of the 34 per cent who do, a staggering 84 per cent are ‘very’ or ‘fairly’ concerned. Good luck with that interest rise Liz….
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