Latest polling on government’s handling of COVID 19 crisis and whether EdSec Williamson should quit
Even an overwhelming majority of Tory voters say the government have handled the student exam results badly
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The latest charts from Ipsos MORI – the UK’s most experienced pollster
While the nation has been enjoying Sunak’s half price food deal he’s been knocked backwards in the PM v Chancellor polling
We’ve now had the initial three day session of the extraordinary half price meal deal announced by Chancellor Sunak last month and from my totally unscientific findings it has certainly grabbed the public’s attention. Just about everybody I’ve meet over the first three days is talking about it and certainly participating cafes and restaurants seemed to have been full. The only complaint where I was yesterday was that it was so busy that we all had to wait 45 minutes…
With 93 days to go Trump is going to have to do better than this explaining the US’s COVID19 numbers
Latest betting gives him a 35% chance of retaining his job As the the Daily Beast reports: ..the clip appears to show that Trump has genuinely managed to convince himself that his response to the coronavirus pandemic has been effective—because he only considers partial and deceptively flattering statistics to be true. Brandishing childishly simplistic, brightly colored COVID-19 graphs presumably provided to him by aides trying to keep him happy, Trump proudly tells Axios’ Jonathan Swan that the U.S. is ‘lower than the…
Opinium finds a net 13% drop in two weeks in government’s “Coronavirus Handling” approval rating
And more than half think the government is coming out of lockdown too fast
Schools reopening has to be at the heart of the Covid plan. Everything else is ad hoc tinkering
As ever, there’s a lack of strategic thinking to the government’s response Lockdown began in the UK on 24 March because the governments mandated it but not really because they chose to. There were many reasons propelling politicians to that decisions, from the mounting numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths to the examples being set abroad. What’s easily forgotten though is the extent to which the lockdown was in no small part a legal regulation of something that was already…