Boris the favourite as betting opens on who’ll lead the EU LEAVE campaign
Ladbrokes betting on who will lead the LEAVE campaign pic.twitter.com/3eTZQK2Yc8
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 2, 2015
Boris trails Nigel and Theresa in the polling
As the referendum gets closer a key decision which could have huge impact on British politics in all sorts of ways is is who will lead the OUT campaign.
Survation carried out some polling for LEAVE.EU and found:-
Theresa May 22%
Nigel Farage 18%
Boris Johnson 14%
These findings are somewhat surprising. I’d have expected Boris to do far better after all he is the one English politician who invariably comes out with positive ratings.
This is a hard one and I am far from convinced that the Mayor,, the Ladbrokes favourite, would want to do it or, indeed, whether he would be the best person for the job. It would all depend on how he saw this as helping him become CON leader.
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, is a heavyweight national politician and probably has fewer negatives about her than the other main contender, Nigel Farage. The latter would be popular with his base but LEAVE needs to reach a much bigger audience than that and the UKIP lead can be described as a “Marmite” politician.
My view is is the LEAVE should choose a non-politician who carries a large degree of public support.
We shall see.
Should the 2/1 betting favourite, Boris Johnson, lead the EU Referendum LEAVE campaign?
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 2, 2015