Worse than John Major amid sleaze, Boris Johnson following partygate and Liz Truss in the immediate aftermath of the calamitous “mini-Budget”. The Conservatives under Rishi Sunak have fallen to a record low of 20 per cent, according to an exclusive Ipsos poll. This is their weakest result since 1978, when this regular tracker began, placing the Tories a remarkable 27 points behind Labour.
These figures represent a seven-point drop in Conservative support since January. What has happened in the last month? Official figures confirmed that the UK economy had slipped into recession at the end of 2023, the party lost two more by-elections in Wellingborough and Kingswood while former deputy chairman Lee Anderson went off on his “Islamists” rant against Sadiq Khan.
