Our Tory members’ panel survey. Expectation of a Conservative-led government after the next election drops to a record low.
We register a dizzying fall of 18 per cent since the Chequers Cabinet meeting and the Brexit White Paper.
We register a dizzying fall of 18 per cent since the Chequers Cabinet meeting and the Brexit White Paper.
All our usual questions as Parliament’s recess begins in our first full survey since the Chequers Cabinet summit and the Brexit White Paper.
Polling Conservative members is a tricky business, but these mutually reinforcing findings suggests our free, monthly survey is up to the task.
The Prime Minister’s backing has actually gone backwards since she stepped up her efforts to sell her new position.
An e-mail with a link to the survey should now be in the inboxes of panel members.
And the same proportion don’t support it. This mirrors the Leave/Remain divide which the survey found before the EU referendum.
Meanwhile, Williamson and Johnson’s approval ratings are in the doldrums.
Each monthly answer to this question since last June has found that over half the respondents want a new leader in place for the contest due in 2022.
This finding confirms that Gove and Javid are the big beasts of these run-offs. We will bring you their run-off result tomorrow morning.
For whatever reason, the ten per cent of respondents who opted for “neither” is the lowest abstention rate, so to speak, of any finding to date.
Johnson gets less reward than one might expect for his earlier backing for Leave, and this narrow win underlines the general decline in his ratings.
Javid’s storming of our Next Tory Leader finding will render this result, like Michael Gove’s trouncing of Boris Johnson, no surprise to our readers.
We open our Michael Gove/Jeremy Hunt/Sajid Javid/Boris Johnson Next Tory Leader run-offs with the one-time Brexiteering joint leadership ticket put head-to-head.
Gove is second, “Other” third. It is an astonishing turnaround for a man who three months ago was languishing on a mere two per cent.
The explanation may have less to do with confidence in the Conservatives than with a lack of confidence in Labour.