It never rains but it pours. Every time poor Rishi Sunak seems to catch a break, bad news appears just around the corner. Less than 24 hours after the government won the Rwanda vote last night, the Prime Minister’s popularity has reached a record new low. Sunak is now as unpopular as his onetime-boss-turned-nemesis Boris Johnson. Talk about a comedown…
Some 70 per cent of people have an unfavourable view of Sunak, new YouGov polling shows – a result which now matches the unfavourability rating of his party. Sunak’s net favorability score has dropped ten points since November to, er, minus 49. By comparison, Johnson’s was minus 46 immediately after he resigned, dropping to minus 53 a month later. To add insult to injury, the PM’s rating amongst 2019 Tory voters has also dropped: more than half — 56 per cent — currently hold a negative view of Sunak compared to only four in ten who see him positively. Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer sits on a slightly less excruciating score of minus 22, with 54 per cent of people viewing him negatively.
The silver lining, if there is one, is that Sunak has not (yet) reached the lows that his predecessor Liz Truss saw, with a score of minus 70 when she left office. Something to aim for in the new year?
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