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Rishi Sunak’s approval rating slips as big summer push fails to spark revival (www.theguardian.com)

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Rishi Sunak’s approval ratings have failed to improve over the summer political break – despite several weeks of Tory policy blitzes intended to win back voters.

The latest Opinium survey for the Observer shows the Conservative have failed to shift the dial in Sunak’s favour, with the prime minister dropping two points in the past two weeks to a net score of -25% (24% approve, 49% disapprove).

Overall, Labour holds a healthy 14-point lead, with 42% of the vote share (+1 compared with a fortnight ago) against 28% for the Conservatives (+2). The Liberal Democrats are on 9% (-2), Reform UK is on 8% (-1) as is the Green party (+1).

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[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's a lot of people who just vote for the same party as a habit. They don't like Labour so they just pick the other main one, rather than thinking about their choice.

Same as the "my grandad was a miner so I have to vote Labour" crew.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Or put another way, there are a lot of stupid people out there.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Same as the “my grandad was a miner so I have to vote Labour” crew.

Although the Red Wall was breached last time round, at least until they realised that they were sold a bunch of Brexit and Culture War promises that never materialised and, ultimately, the Tories weren't going to help them.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a lot of people who just vote for the same party as a habit.

On a slight tangent: I am super pissed off that Labour has quietly dropped support for PR. Maybe not instantly but I would have hoped over time PR would have sorted out this cultural problem with our parliamentary parties. They're basically football teams at the moment.

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Why would a party that benefits from FPTP ever want to change it?