Boris Johnson has two big advantages: the ability to drive his opponents quite mad, and strikingly low expectations. Pick up a newspaper recently and you might have read that Britain is ‘mortified’ to have such a bozo foisted upon the nation by a handful of retired Tories. If that were the case, the opinion polls would show the Tories plunging in popularity. But instead, the reverse has happened. The Conservatives, so recently trailing the Brexit Party, are now comfortably ahead of everyone else. The honeymoon has begun.
Three different sets of fresh polling conducted by YouGov, Opinium and Deltapoll (commissioned by the Sunday Times, the Observer and the Mail on Sunday) has recorded a large bounce in the Conservative party’s ratings. YouGov has the Tories on 31 per cent (up six since Boris took over), Labour are on 21 per cent, the Lib Dems 20 per cent and the Brexit party have fallen to 13 per cent.
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