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Longstanding readers of PB know that Mike Smithson and myself love the Ipsos/MORI net satisfaction ratings because their data goes back nearly fifty years and it allows us to help put into context current polling and are usually a greater pointer to electoral outcomes. These ratings show how well the PM is doing one month after becoming PM (Thatcher’s is three months after she became PM as MORI didn’t poll monthly then.) Just imagine what the current Prime Minister’s ratings…

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And Truss remains a figurehead at Number 10 The sounds right because Hunt is someone who does have extensive ministerial experience and is one who presumably can restore confidence in the markets. What he doesn’t have is the appeal amongst Tory members to ensure that he could succeed in a leadership election. So we could have a situation whereby Liz Truss can remain at Number 10 but the real power is in the hands of her Chancellor. So all that…

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Britain has largely been ungoverned – and certainly not governed with even a basic level of competence – for the best part of a year now. Barely had Covid quietened down and COP 26 been completed, that this latest phase started – around this time last year: The  Owen Paterson saga with his resignation in early November following Johnson’s U-turn on his attempts to protect him From December onwards the whole Partygate issue which dragged on and on, despite a resignation…

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Well what can you say after such a crazy day when when the the Chancellor of the Exchequer of just 5-weeks was sacked and now all the focus is on Liz Truss’s survival.. One thing in her favour is that the Tory Party has no obvious mechanism for getting rid of a leader within their first year. No amount of letters going to Graham Brady is going to change this and my reading is that she will just stick there…

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Things appear to be moving very fast in the Conservative Party following this morning’s sacking by Liz Truss of Chancellor Kwarteng. Inevitably all the speculation is about how long she can survive for there is little doubt that her term as prime minister has so far been an utter and total disaster for the Conservative Party. She simply doesn’t have it. My reading is that Kwarteng was simply doing in his budget what Truss wanted him to do amd it…

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And for Kwasi the worst Chancellor ratings ever recorded by Ipsos Rishi Sunak, who was the long-term betting favourite for the Tory leadership last time but got beaten by Liz Truss, is now back in the favourites slot following the current turmoil in the Tory Party. Everything now depends for him on how long Truss manages to stay in post though she is helped by a party rule that there can be no challenge to the leader within their first…

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And the Times reports a plot to oust her Another set of difficult front pages for Truss as the pressure mounts on her to perform another U-Turn on what has been the defining feature of her time at Number 10 – the controversial proposals in the first budget. The Times goes much further and reports that “Senior Conservatives are holding talks about replacing Liz Truss with a joint ticket of Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt as part of a “coronation”…

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