It will not come as much of a shock to learn that people who voted Conservative in 2019 generally think their chosen party is fairly useless these days. A new poll this week from YouGov has broken this down issue by issue – the results make chastening reading for any Tory MP who thinks the party has done a decent job in government over the past four years.
The Tories have lost the approval of an outright majority of their 2019 voters on nearly every big political issue. Only 46 per cent of them now say the Conservatives are the best party on law and order, 44 per cent for the economy, 41 per cent for taxation, 37 per cent for handling asylum and immigration and 28 per cent for the NHS.
Sunak’s advisers have worked out that there is no political reward attached to trying to win approval from centrist opinion
At first glance this looks like yet more supporting evidence for the ‘game over’ brigade – the people who think the next election is in the bag for Keir Starmer.
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