Rishi Sunak has highest satisfaction ratings for a Chancellor since Healey in 1978

Rishi Sunak has highest satisfaction ratings for a Chancellor since Healey in 1978

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At some stage, surely, things will change for the man now favourite for next PM Rishi Sunak remains popular with the British public according to the September Ipsos MORI Political Monitor. The poll, conducted before the latest announcement of the Job Support Scheme on Thursday, reveals that two-thirds (64%) say they are satisfied with the way he is doing his job as Chancellor, up from 45% in March – one in five (21%) are dissatisfied. This is the best score…

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A Personal View of Sunak’s plans from a Lake District Pub

A Personal View of Sunak’s plans from a Lake District Pub

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Let me be blunt. Sunak’s package does not help the hospitality sector, certainly not its small businesses. Perhaps he never intended to. Perhaps he has taken the view that the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, VAT cut (of no use to those on the fixed rate scheme) and other help was enough. Or that there is not enough money left. Or that it does not matter – being unskilled, low value and unnecessary in a post-Covid world. If this…

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Keiran Pedley’s Ipsos MORI podcast: The new COVID regulations + Starmer takes to the stage

Keiran Pedley’s Ipsos MORI podcast: The new COVID regulations + Starmer takes to the stage

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On this week’s Ipsos MORI Politics & Society podcast, Keiran Pedley is joined by Katy Balls, Deputy Political Editor of The Spectator and Ben Walker, Data Journalist at the New Statesman and founder of the Britain Elects website. The team discuss the fallout from new COVID restrictions announced by the government this week – and what the public think of them as well as reaction to Keir Starmer’s first conference speech as Labour leader and how he polls versus Prime…

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On Rishi’s big day he just fails to hold on as “next PM” betting favourite

On Rishi’s big day he just fails to hold on as “next PM” betting favourite

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It has been another big day for Chancellor Rishi Sunak as he’s announced his latest Job Support Scheme designed to top up wages of workers who have not been able to return to the work full time due to COVID19. He’s become probably the most well known and certainly the most popular member of Johnson’s cabinet and remains the leading Tory in the betting to be the next PM. This is a strange market because everything depends on the timing…

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Majority of Brits support the ‘Rule of Six’ but few are ready to be “snitchers”

Majority of Brits support the ‘Rule of Six’ but few are ready to be “snitchers”

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A new survey by Ipsos MORI finds 60% of Britons support that the ‘rule of six’, which makes it illegal for more than 6 people to meet, in order to control the spread of coronavirus. Less than 1 in 5 oppose the new rule (17%). However, despite government requests for people to inform the authorities if they see someone breaking the rule, few believe they are likely to do so. Seven in 10 (70%) say it is unlikely that they…

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Biden’s national poll lead remains and the swing state surveys are looking positive

Biden’s national poll lead remains and the swing state surveys are looking positive

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We are just 5 weeks and 5 days away from the presidential election and the striking thing is how solid Biden’s lead has been in the national polls as shown in the chart above. There’s been hardly any variation and this is currently being supported by some good swing state polling suggesting that that he could be in a strong position when the votes are finally counted. The latest move in the election, the Republican effort to fill quickly the…

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Johnson’s Commons response on the UK’s COVID infection rate is really quite extraordinary

Johnson’s Commons response on the UK’s COVID infection rate is really quite extraordinary

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The clip now trending on social media I have only just seen this Commons response by the PM to LAB MP, Ben Bradshaw, who asked about the UK’s COVID infection rate compared with Italy and Germany. It really is quite remarkable that Johnson should turn this round to Britain being a “freedom loving country” This was an obvious question and he should have had a response all prepared. His apporach, I’d suggest, is one of the reasons why his personal…

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