Could Starmer really become the UK’s ‘most unpopular leader’?

The Tory party hasn’t had the best week, what with one of their MPs defecting and their biggest donor embroiled in a racism row. But if Conservative politicians were looking for somewhere to go in Westminster this evening to lift their spirits, Mr S would not have recommended J. L. Partners’ ‘Election 2024’ event. Organised in word clouds and colourful charts, polling by the firm dubbed Rishi Sunak ‘weak’, showed the public want more ‘honesty’ in politics and revealed that a not insignificant proportion of 2019 Tory voters would rather, um, Martin Lewis the money-saving expert as their PM. It’s all a rather poor indictment of the Tories’ track record as they head into the next election…

Panellist Will Dry — the former Sunak campaigner and No.10 SpAd turned member of the mysterious Conservative Britain Alliance group (CBA) — has been recently thrust into the spotlight. He was linked to bombshell polling