The Doctors dispute: Betting opens on whether Hunt will survive
As the Junior Doctor furore continues, bookmakers William Hill have opened a market on whether Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt will still be in his role on January 1, 2017.
He is odds-on to survive in the job and the bookie quotes odds of 8/11 that he is still in post on Jan 1, 2017. It is evens that he will leave the position before that date.
The polling suggests that Hunt is finding it hard to take public opinion with him.
New @IpsosMORI polling on doctors dispute finds 8% increase in those say they strongly support the action pic.twitter.com/6m7LfOSSNf
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 9, 2016
Ipsos-MORI: By 5 to 1 voters blame the government for protracted doctors dispute than the docs themselves. pic.twitter.com/ss524JeAJM
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 9, 2016
William Hill also offer 28/1 that Jeremy Hunt will be the next elected leader of the Conservative Party.
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