Almost half of all voters who backed the Conservatives at the last election have now abandoned the party, an exclusive poll for i reveals.
Just one in five people approve of last week’s “mini-Budget” overall, thanks to the giveaways for some of Britain’s wealthiest people – even though most of measures contained in the fiscal statement are popular with the public.
And Sir Keir Starmer’s personal ratings are far better than those of Liz Truss, according to the BMG survey – with the new Prime Minister almost as unpopular as her predecessor Boris Johnson was as his time in office came to an end.
Of those who backed the winning side in the 2019 general election, only 54 per cent say they still support the party while 15 per cent have switched to Labour.
Labour holds a 17-point lead in the polls, with 47 per cent of voters backing the Opposition while 30 per cent support the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats are on 9 per cent, the Greens on 5 per cent and Reform UK on 3 per cent.
That result would give Labour “a 1997-esque landslide majority” at the next general election, according to BMG’s Robert Struthers. Other polls this week have shown an even larger lead for the party, but BMG uses a different model which aims to account for disaffected voters who say they will abstain but are likely to return to the party they previously backed when polling day comes around.
The Conservatives are behind Labour in every socioeconomic group, in every region of Britain and in every age group except the over-65s. Just one in eight people aged below 35 are planning to vote Tory.
19 per cent of people said they were satisfied with Ms Truss’s job performance and 48 per cent were dissatisfied, for a net rating of -29 – slightly better than the -35 recorded for Mr Johnson a month ago, just before he left office. Sir Keir has a net rating of +9 with 34 per cent backing him and 25 per cent opposed.
Mr Struthers said: “As market confidence has plummeted, so too have the Conservative prospects for the next general election. If borne out in a general election, a 17-point lead would be enough to give the Labour party a 1997-esque landslide majority.”
He added: “Rather than a so-called political honeymoon, Liz Truss has left a very negative first impression, with half of Britons already saying they are dissatisfied with her leadership and just one in five satisfied.”
Nearly every individual measure contained in Kwasi Kwarteng’s fiscal statement is popular with the public, with broad support for the energy price guarantee, scrapping the rise in national insurance, cutting the basic rate of income tax and reducing stamp duty. The only unpopular measures were ending the cap on bankers’ bonuses and abolishing the 45p additional rate of income tax.
But in aggregate, the statement is overwhelmingly unpopular: 18 per cent of voters feel positive about the package and 55 per cent are negative.
BMG’s Jack Curry said: “The reaction of the public to the mini-budget mirrors that of the market – disastrous. Our polling shows voters from across the political spectrum have reacted almost uniformly negatively. Worryingly for Truss and Kwarteng, this includes almost half of those who voted Conservative in 2019.”
The tax cuts for the wealthy and new bonus rules have “toxified the other more popular measures”, he added.
You got what you voted for.
You liked the clown, he made you laugh, you thought he was just like you, he was…. A fucking self centred fuck. Hes now past the baton to a thundercunt on a mission from the book of Thatcher.
Soooooo enjoy your
Oven ready strong and stable shitshow thats not for turning.
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Why Labour aren’t calling for a GE is beyond me. They’d have it in the bag…
She said straight…. ” I’m not her to be popular ” so you guys getting it in the bums
I think a lot of them voters abandoned them a good few months ago.
Yeah, I’m one of them. The only chance the Party had was to vote Sunak in, but they blew it.
Well I guess they’re the dumbasses who voted to get brexit done.
I’m kind of glad Thick Lizzy is PM, maybe people will finally remember what the Tories really are (as opposed to the populist BS that Bozo came up with).
Is it just me or there are some on here still going “Here how Liz Tuss and the Tories can still win!” and alot of defeatism.
Remember who to blame when our country goes up its own asshole, the Tory party isn’t only to blame, it’s their brain-dead homunculi self-fellating neanderthal voters as well. Thank you conservative voters for making everyone’s lives slowly shittier because you were afraid foreigners were going to fuck up our country
Whoever convinced Theresa May to call an early election needs to start talking to Truss before she finishes smothering the UK economy.
They’re not leaving because they object to her policies. They’re leaving because her policies are threatening the money train the Tories deliver to the rich.
12 years of tory mismanagement, has nothing to do with the current status
Can’t put all the blame on Truss
It’s also Boris, Cameron and the rest of the thieving self serving Tory cunts!
Panic merchants. There was nothing she could do that would have had any effect that would not have caused disruption. In other words there was no ‘playing it safe’.
Should be noted that the article references the most recent [BMG polling from 27–29 September](https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1575885936076152832), which gives the *narrowest* of Labour leads at 17%, and doesn’t show as much data as the others (and also had come out just before “the big one” with Labour’s 33-point lead).
Not to mention, [out of all the opinion polls that have been taken in the last few days](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election#2022), the BMG poll just so happens to be the one with the highest Conservative voting intention (at 30%, compared with the other six averaging at around 25%)… take that how you will; I’m still invoking Hanlon’s Razor for now, as I don’t really know anything about BMG to have an opinion on them or their methods.
Old tory voters pikachu face at the tory party doing what it does best..
Not nice when it affects you is it?
They’ll be back and are just waiting for a new quip to latch onto.
“Its because of putin”
Is what the ignorant die hard, remaining tory voters say
The ‘honeymoon’ with Truss is like the outcome of a shotgun wedding : she never really liked you, now you’re married your stuck, and everything she actually wants is S&M that you’re totally not into.
Remember all the shit show from the press about Brown being an ‘unelected’ prime minister? And Brown didn’t immediately tank the economy either
They weren’t put off by the endemic, brazen corruption of Boris and Co?
If you vote conservative then You’re either rich or very stupid
If you’re going to abandon the party now, stay the fuck out of politics you greedy shitstains.
Good. Every single one of them has proven to be either completely incompetent or more than willing to roger the majority. I’m not a fan of Keir but I’d rather give them a go! 12 years if this and we’ve been in steady decline, with numerous lies and now we are getting completely done over. Time for a change.
The conservatives were always voted in because `they create a stable economy` well that’s not true anymore. No reason to vote for them anymore, they won’t win another election unless labor are even more inept (likely)
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Almost half of all voters who backed the Conservatives at the last election have now abandoned the party, an exclusive poll for i reveals.
Just one in five people approve of last week’s “mini-Budget” overall, thanks to the giveaways for some of Britain’s wealthiest people – even though most of measures contained in the fiscal statement are popular with the public.
And Sir Keir Starmer’s personal ratings are far better than those of Liz Truss, according to the BMG survey – with the new Prime Minister almost as unpopular as her predecessor Boris Johnson was as his time in office came to an end.
Of those who backed the winning side in the 2019 general election, only 54 per cent say they still support the party while 15 per cent have switched to Labour.
Labour holds a 17-point lead in the polls, with 47 per cent of voters backing the Opposition while 30 per cent support the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats are on 9 per cent, the Greens on 5 per cent and Reform UK on 3 per cent.
That result would give Labour “a 1997-esque landslide majority” at the next general election, according to BMG’s Robert Struthers. Other polls this week have shown an even larger lead for the party, but BMG uses a different model which aims to account for disaffected voters who say they will abstain but are likely to return to the party they previously backed when polling day comes around.
The Conservatives are behind Labour in every socioeconomic group, in every region of Britain and in every age group except the over-65s. Just one in eight people aged below 35 are planning to vote Tory.
19 per cent of people said they were satisfied with Ms Truss’s job performance and 48 per cent were dissatisfied, for a net rating of -29 – slightly better than the -35 recorded for Mr Johnson a month ago, just before he left office. Sir Keir has a net rating of +9 with 34 per cent backing him and 25 per cent opposed.
Mr Struthers said: “As market confidence has plummeted, so too have the Conservative prospects for the next general election. If borne out in a general election, a 17-point lead would be enough to give the Labour party a 1997-esque landslide majority.”
He added: “Rather than a so-called political honeymoon, Liz Truss has left a very negative first impression, with half of Britons already saying they are dissatisfied with her leadership and just one in five satisfied.”
Nearly every individual measure contained in Kwasi Kwarteng’s fiscal statement is popular with the public, with broad support for the energy price guarantee, scrapping the rise in national insurance, cutting the basic rate of income tax and reducing stamp duty. The only unpopular measures were ending the cap on bankers’ bonuses and abolishing the 45p additional rate of income tax.
But in aggregate, the statement is overwhelmingly unpopular: 18 per cent of voters feel positive about the package and 55 per cent are negative.
BMG’s Jack Curry said: “The reaction of the public to the mini-budget mirrors that of the market – disastrous. Our polling shows voters from across the political spectrum have reacted almost uniformly negatively. Worryingly for Truss and Kwarteng, this includes almost half of those who voted Conservative in 2019.”
The tax cuts for the wealthy and new bonus rules have “toxified the other more popular measures”, he added.
You got what you voted for.
You liked the clown, he made you laugh, you thought he was just like you, he was…. A fucking self centred fuck. Hes now past the baton to a thundercunt on a mission from the book of Thatcher.
Soooooo enjoy your
Oven ready strong and stable shitshow thats not for turning.
[deleted]
Why Labour aren’t calling for a GE is beyond me. They’d have it in the bag…
She said straight…. ” I’m not her to be popular ” so you guys getting it in the bums
I think a lot of them voters abandoned them a good few months ago.
Yeah, I’m one of them. The only chance the Party had was to vote Sunak in, but they blew it.
Well I guess they’re the dumbasses who voted to get brexit done.
I’m kind of glad Thick Lizzy is PM, maybe people will finally remember what the Tories really are (as opposed to the populist BS that Bozo came up with).
Is it just me or there are some on here still going “Here how Liz Tuss and the Tories can still win!” and alot of defeatism.
Remember who to blame when our country goes up its own asshole, the Tory party isn’t only to blame, it’s their brain-dead homunculi self-fellating neanderthal voters as well. Thank you conservative voters for making everyone’s lives slowly shittier because you were afraid foreigners were going to fuck up our country
Whoever convinced Theresa May to call an early election needs to start talking to Truss before she finishes smothering the UK economy.
They’re not leaving because they object to her policies. They’re leaving because her policies are threatening the money train the Tories deliver to the rich.
12 years of tory mismanagement, has nothing to do with the current status
Can’t put all the blame on Truss
It’s also Boris, Cameron and the rest of the thieving self serving Tory cunts!
Panic merchants. There was nothing she could do that would have had any effect that would not have caused disruption. In other words there was no ‘playing it safe’.
Should be noted that the article references the most recent [BMG polling from 27–29 September](https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1575885936076152832), which gives the *narrowest* of Labour leads at 17%, and doesn’t show as much data as the others (and also had come out just before “the big one” with Labour’s 33-point lead).
Not to mention, [out of all the opinion polls that have been taken in the last few days](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election#2022), the BMG poll just so happens to be the one with the highest Conservative voting intention (at 30%, compared with the other six averaging at around 25%)… take that how you will; I’m still invoking Hanlon’s Razor for now, as I don’t really know anything about BMG to have an opinion on them or their methods.
Old tory voters pikachu face at the tory party doing what it does best..
Not nice when it affects you is it?
They’ll be back and are just waiting for a new quip to latch onto.
“Its because of putin”
Is what the ignorant die hard, remaining tory voters say
The ‘honeymoon’ with Truss is like the outcome of a shotgun wedding : she never really liked you, now you’re married your stuck, and everything she actually wants is S&M that you’re totally not into.
Remember all the shit show from the press about Brown being an ‘unelected’ prime minister? And Brown didn’t immediately tank the economy either
They weren’t put off by the endemic, brazen corruption of Boris and Co?
If you vote conservative then You’re either rich or very stupid
If you’re going to abandon the party now, stay the fuck out of politics you greedy shitstains.
Good. Every single one of them has proven to be either completely incompetent or more than willing to roger the majority. I’m not a fan of Keir but I’d rather give them a go! 12 years if this and we’ve been in steady decline, with numerous lies and now we are getting completely done over. Time for a change.
The conservatives were always voted in because `they create a stable economy` well that’s not true anymore. No reason to vote for them anymore, they won’t win another election unless labor are even more inept (likely)