Tory 2019 intake turns on Truss

So much for the honeymoon. Liz Truss closes her first ‘proper’ fortnight of politics this weekend with her backbenchers in open revolt and talk already building of a mounting government U-turn. There have been plenty of damning verdicts on last Friday’s ‘mini Budget’ but none more so than the YouGov poll which put Labour a whopping 33 points ahead of the Truss’s Tories.

And now Mr S brings news of fresh woe to the under-fire PM as she battles to save her premiership. A poll by Redfield and Wilton of Conservative voters at the 2019 election shows just how few were impressed with the headline measures of her first fiscal event. Nearly three times as many (56 per cent) oppose lifting the bankers’ bonuses cap versus 19 per cent who support the move. And nearly half (45 per cent) do not want Truss and Kwarteng to cut the top rate of tax from 45p to 40p versus 30 per cent who back the cut.