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This just drives the “different rules for them” narrative Johnson’s visit to a hospital in Northumberland where he refused to wear a face mask is getting a fair amount of attention on social media and comes at a difficult time for the PM who has seen his ratings drop sharply. I don’t think he was helped this morning by Deputy PM Dominic Raab in the above BBC Breakfast interview. Surely someone reputed to be as good a communicator as Johnson…

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Another morning and another set of newspaper front pages with the Mail finding a new line of attack on the government highlighting a “Tory Grandee” who spent weeks in the Caribbean while the Commons was sitting. The one thing that seems to be consistent is that the Telegraph, Johnson’s former employer, seems to be staying loyal to their man and yet again is almost alone in not attacking the PM and his government. I’m beginning to think that he might…

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Raab, IDS, 1922 Chair Brady and many more Mike Smithson

Not good numbers with by-elections coming up The latest poll from Ipsos-MORI, the firm that has been political polling in the UK since the 1970s, is out and has bad news for Johnson and worrying news for the Tories. The voting figures are: LAB: 36%=: CON: 35% -4: GRN: 11%: +5 LD: 9%= Overall satisfaction with Boris Johnson has also fallen. A third (34%) are satisfied with the way he is doing his job as Prime Minister (down 5 points…

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In the past few days several PBers have commented that they think that the Tories will win another majority at the next election. This is in contrast to the trend on the betting markets where the chances of such an outcome, as rated by punters, has edged down a bit. This is entirely in line with current polling with two firms now having the CON lead down to one. This represents a 5.4% CON to LAB swing since GE2019. We…

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This morning many households in North Shropshire received their first leaflet, see above, of the by-election from the LDs which is pretty fast work given the vacancy was created only a few days ago. Although the party came third in the seat at GE2019 they were in second place at last May’s local elections and seem to be making this their priority. At this stage in the campaign, the party is seeking to establish itself as the main challenger. An…

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As we saw last night the latest Opinium poll for the Observer has Johnson dropping to his worst net approval ratings ever since becoming PM. I thought it might be useful to look to see if there is a regional difference in the change in his ratings. The chart above compares last night’s poll with the approval ratings in mid-May when the PM was enjoying the full benefit of his vaccine boost As can be seen it is the Midlands…

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