The Prime Minister is not abandoning the trade agenda on the altar of the farming lobby, just proceeding with more caution
We have seen genuine levelling up being delivered in our constituencies thanks to the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT).
The Prime Minister’s score is still dire: he is back in positive ratings, but not by very much. Though a substantial minority of the panel want him on the leadership election ballot and/or would vote for him had they the option, a larger majority of it does not.
The Leader of the House of Commons should be wary of writing off a system that, apart from a few high-profile cases, hasn’t done too badly.
A pattern is beginning to form below the Defence Secretary, with Truss, Zahawi and Trevelyan coming in variously at second, third and fourth.
Meanwhile, Johnson is out of negative ratings for the first time in three months – and in comparative mid-table safety.
Andrew is Housing Minister, Cleverly Europe Minister and Ellis and Wheeler move to the Cabinet Office.
And Ministers associated with support for Covid restrictions suffer noticeable falls in their scores.
The Leader of the House has been a critic of tax rises, and is a key ally of the Prime Minister.
Why did so many senior Conservatives invest so much political capital in a scheme dependent on Starmer’s goodwill?
There is a willingness to give the new Cabinet a chance, but nervousness about the country’s economic prospects and the Party’s strategic direction.
And Wallace is up from ninth to fourth. The Prime Minister and Home Secretary are both in the bottom ten.
Policy drift following the collapse of the Union Unit shows the danger of Downing Street losing its grip on a process.
And Williamson’s negative rating halves in the wake of his intervention in the Batley Mohammed cartoons row.
The Brexit deal bounce in our final survey of last year has left little room for a vaccine bounce in the first survey of this one.