Opinium: Apart from vaccines more think LAB would be doing better
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An interesting new polling approach from Opinium features in its latest poll and in the chart above. The sample was asked: Please imagine Labour had been in government for the last couple of years instead of the Conservatives. Do you think they would have done a better or worse job in each of the following areas?
Clearly the vaccine continues to be a plus for ministers. But in the other areas polled thought LAB would do better than CON. I just wonder whether this is one of those polling approaches which is always going to benefit the opposition who, of course, cannot be tested.
This comes in a poll where the main voting intention number had the CON lead down from 12% at GE2019 to 4% which would if it happened like this, be very difficult for Johnson to retain a working majority.
In one sense the Labour leader should be encouraged by these numbers.