If things seem bad, they can always get worse. That’s the message for poor Rishi Sunak in the latest ConservativeHome league table of party members. The Prime Minister today records his worst ratings ever, racking up a dire -25.4 among card-carrying Conservatives. It comes after a yo-yoing three months in which his negative ratings rose to 25.8 after the Net Zero speech before falling slightly to 7.1 after party conference season. But Sunak is now bottom of his own cabinet – one place beneath longtime-struggler Jeremy Hunt, whose ratings rise to ‘just’ -13.4. So much for that Autumn Statement bounce…
The other big beasts around the cabinet table fare little better either. Lord Cameron's return is hardly a triumphant one, with the membership awarding him -4.9 and a fourth-from-bottom finish. James Cleverly, the man he replaced, has seen his ratings plummet as he fell from first with 72 points to eleventh from bottom with 10.6
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