As The Times observes Rishi Sunak is now as unpopular as Boris Johnson was when he resigned as prime minister. Polling from YouGov, carried out before last night’s crunch vote on the Rwanda bill, found 70 per cent of people said they had an unfavourable opinion of Sunak, compared with 21 per cent who had a favourable opinion. It means the prime minister has been given his lowest ever net favourability score of minus 49, a drop of ten points…
Mike Smithson
TSE
When I first moved into project management I asked my boss what he thought the top attribute of a successful project manager was. He said: ‘be lucky’, which is undoubtedly correct but hardly actionable. Was there ever a luckier Prime Minister than Rishi Sunak? I think not, here’s why: At six key points the dice have fallen heavily Sunak’s way. Family. Even before he was born, luck was on Sunak’s side. His grandparents and parents were able to move from…
Last week I texted fellow PBer JohnO with my fear/expectation that we would have a snap election in the new year caused by the Rwanda kerfuffle. John is the voice of sanity and experience when it comes to politics and his view was that he would eat one of my old trainers if there was an early election, in his words ‘Paddy Ashdown only had to consume a hat.’ I suspect this is a bit like the Nobody Moves Or…
This week Rishi Sunak is giving evidence to the Covid-19 inquiry and the polling is largely grim for him. The Times report that Twice as many people now think Rishi Sunak handled the pandemic badly than well, a poll has revealed before the prime minister’s crucial day of evidence to the Covid inquiry. More than half — 52 per cent — of those asked in a YouGov survey for the Times said Sunak’s flagship Eat Out to Help Out scheme…
Thanks to bondegezou for posting this link on the previous thread about Scottish independence which found These Islands polling has found that 76% of SNP supporters believe that “Scotland sends more to Westminster than it gets back in public spending” and that they consider this claim to be very important to their constitutional view. Unless reserved spending which takes place in Scotland – that is spending on things like pensions and Network Rail – doesn’t count as Scotland “getting back” public spending,…
The judgment It wasn’t even close. Every argument of the Scottish government was rejected by Lady Haldane. The S.35 judgment should have come as no surprise. Despite the much touted claims that the GRR Bill had been carefully considered and consulted on over many years, in reality the SNP and Greens had refused to acknowledge or engage with the very many feminist groups raising objections and concerns and evidence of problems. It consulted only with lobby groups they funded (£900,000…