And 58% want a change this year The graphic above is from today’s Daily Mail and has numbers that will seriously worry Downing Street. For as can been seen it suggests that those polled want Rishi Sunak to replace Johnson as PM and for the change to take place if not now then within a year. I must admit that I have never heard of the pollster, JL Partners, and my first reaction on seeing the details was to find…
Just about the only polling that looks views of Sunak against Johnson is the above regular question in the Redfield & Wilton poll. Overall in the latest survey Johnson has a lead of 2% but that includes findings for Wales and Scotland and in the chart I have just looked at England.
Former Newsnight reporter and Number 10 spinner, Allegra Stratton, has caused a bit of a stir by raising questions about the current feasibility of electric cars and the lack of infrastructure to support them. This has been accentuated by her current role in handling the PR for the Glasgow UN climate change conference. When asked about her getting an electric car she said she didn’t fancy one yet and preferred her diesel Golf. She made good points about their range…
How’ll this look after the party conferences? We are only a few weeks away from the party conference season and although the events have been truncated the big set pieces will be the speeches of Johnson and Starmer. For the latter has never been able to make a big speech in front of the party faithful since becoming the leader in April last year. His conference creates a huge opportunity to get himself more widely known and get the focus…
One of the big betting events in the run-up to Christmas is on the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year. Whenever this has taken place in the December after the summer Olympics then it is almost a certainty that who gets crowned will have played a big part in the games. This is how Betfair punters are currently seeing it and after Jason Kenny’s record-breaking seventh Gold yesterday morning he looks on course to make the running in the betting…
That we British are the least likely in the world to think referendums are a good way settling political issues has left me shocked in a way only matched by the time Captain Renault discovered gambling was taking place in Rick’s Cafe. After the rancour following the Brexit plebiscite you can understand why the polling shows what it does. What I would really like to see and have suggested to Ipsos MORI is that they conduct a full scale Scotland…
It has been a disastrous week for the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, following the publication of a report on his behaviour, at least eleven women were harassed by Governor Cuomo. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed numerous women on his staff or in his circle in Albany, repeatedly touching, grabbing or making inappropriate comments towards them and retaliating against at least one when she came forward with her story, according to a long-awaited investigative report from Attorney General Letitia…