Support for Liz Truss is waning among the British electorate even before her expected appointment as prime minister next week, according to two recent polls.
Only 12% of Britons expect Truss to be a good or great leader, while 52% expect her to be poor or terrible, according to YouGov. Britons are split on whether she’d be a better prime minister than predecessor Boris Johnson, but tend to think she’d be worse than every other premier going back to Margaret Thatcher.
Polling by Opinium for Sunday’s Observer newspaper showed that 31% of people who voted Conservative in the 2019 landslide election win thought Truss looked like “a prime minister in waiting” at the end of August, compared with 49% at the beginning of the month. The decline was broadly similar when Britons were asked whether Truss, currently foreign secretary, was competent or likable.
