Oh dear. It seems that the Mordaunt camp has done it again. Just hours after suggesting that Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss would ‘murder’ the Tory party if they were elected, another suspect #PM4PM tweet has been doing the rounds. It’s about the Trade minister’s ability to win a general election, citing a YouGov poll of 18-19 July of Tory party members. Team Mordaunt has released a graphic which shows Penny on 28 points compared to Sunak and Truss on 17 and 15 respectively.
Separately, screenshots of a document are also being shared among MPs by Mordaunt’s supporters, again referring to the YouGov poll labelled 18-19 July. Unfortunately, that poll was actually conducted between 12-13 July, as YouGov’s findings show here. That polling was done before the controversies of the past week as Penny Mordaunt’s views have come under increasing scrutiny, with a corresponding dip in her favourability among members. Yesterday’s survey actually showed Mordaunt losing to Truss, and with a slimmer lead over Sunak.
The screenshot of the document being circulated to MPs shows a timestamp of 9:30 a.m and the time of the tweet was 10:01 a.m. Was team Penny aware of the inaccuracy? Or did they decide to tweet the graphic anyway? Either way, after recent doubts about their candidate’s mastery of a brief, good to see Team Mordaunt showing their candidate is across all the detail…
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