Sunak soars to our highest-ever standing in this month’s Cabinet League Table

Matt Hancock also sees a 20-point rise in his approval rating to take third place as the Covid-19 crisis reshapes British politics.

Our survey. An emphatic vote of confidence in the Government. Though one in five activists think that it has over-reacted.

Seventy-seven per cent of those polled back the lockdown; 90 per cent think the Prime Minister and his team are handling the crisis well.

Grassroots members stand by Patel in our latest Cabinet League Table

The overall numbers are down slightly after the allegations against the Home Secretary and the Government’s defeat over Heathrow.

Our survey. Over half of Party members give a thumbs-up to fracking – so dissenting from Johnson’s manifesto.

They don’t believe that the Government’s moratorium on it is justified by the evidence about safety.

Two in three Party members support the 2050 zero carbon target

These results are moderately encouraging for Boris Johnson and his team as they head towards this autumn’s COP26 summit in Glasgow.

Our survey. Almost half of Party members believe that human activity is driving global warming. Almost a third don’t.

Our sense is that Conservative MPs will be very roughly where our panel is – although we have to admit that we’ve no evidence for that. 

Conservative activists: there is no Climate Emergency. Our survey.

They reject the claim that there is one by about two-thirds to one third. Our other survey findings on the same theme will also be published this week.

The calm before the reshuffle? Our first Cabinet League Table of 2020

The month-on-month stability in our rankings highlights against just how much an overall majority has calmed British politics.

Bullish Tory members: more than nine in ten think the next election will produce another Conservative majority

Our survey is a snapshot, five years before the event, but this is the starting benchmark: can the Government possibly keep confidence levels this high?

Sunak is our readers’ ‘One to Watch’ for 2020. Our survey.

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury wins decisively with over half the vote. Johnny Mercer was the runner up, with more than a quarter.

Conservative Party members think Keir Starmer would be the most effective Labour leader

And by ranking Rayner second, they appear to agree that “Rebecca Long Bailey isn’t even the best Labour leader in her own flat”.

Members think Johnson should honour his pledge on the 40p rate – our survey

They support raising the threshold by two to one – a useful reminder that the Prime Minister cannot ignore his Party’s base.

It’s a thumbs-up for Cummings from Party members. Our survey.

He is clearly a winner – and Party members want to keep hold of him now that there is a Tory government in place with a big majority.

Triumphator Johnson – our final Cabinet League Table of 2019

The Prime Minister heads a Cabinet whose stock has risen markedly in the wake of this month’s decisive election victory.

Baker is backbencher of the year. Our survey.

The Spartans played a major role in sinking May’s Brexit deal and floating Johnson’s. Baker has thus been a force to be reckoned with.