When Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, his MPs hoped their new leader’s relative popularity would rub off on a discredited Tory brand. Instead, the reverse effect appears to be on display.
An exclusive Ipsos poll for the Standard finds that Sunak’s rating as PM has fallen to the worst-ever level for a major party leader, at -59 equal to the nadirs of both Jeremy Corbyn and Sir John Major. It seems that no matter who is Conservative leader, the party takes him or her down with it.
