Still seeing significant leads for the BLP. The most recent one's saw the BLP on 41% and 42% (8-9% ahead) respectively and interesting a number of polls prior to that saw Labour there or thereabouts with the Tories even further behind, opening up 12-14% leads.
As ever the question is can the BLP maintain at least some of this support into the near inevitable period where with a new leader in situ, likely Truss, opinion shifts behind the new leadership. I'm always fascinated by that dynamic. I guess it's the clean slate, the way in which people map all their hopes onto a broadly unknown quantity. That said with Truss perhaps that dynamic doesn't exist in quite that way. She's all too well known, not least for cutting and hedging in the past number of weeks (as has her opponent).
Either way, the Tories have a good pile of support to pull back to pull ahead of Labour. How much they can do that, and whether they do pull ahead will perhaps indicate quite a lot about the next number of years, not least the potential longevity of this government under her leadership before the next election is called. Just on that, do people think she will go for an early election if she can or will she wait out the term of the government?
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