Who Do MPs Rate as The Most Impressive Parliamentarians?

 

IPSOS Mori has published some fascinating data on who MPs in each Party rate as being the most impressive parliamentarians.

Among the 29 Labour MPs who were surveyed 62% rated their Leader, Keir Starmer, as the most impressive with his Shadow Chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, coming second, rated by 12% of those Labour MPs polled. It speaks to perhaps one of the party’s Achilles heels’ namely the lack of cut through members of the Shadow Cabinet, other than Keir Starmer, are having on the parliamentary party, let alone the public as a whole.

Among the 49 Conservative MPs who responded, 44% chose the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, as the most impressive parliamentarian, followed by the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock on 23%. Just 6% felt that Boris Johnson was the most impressive parliamentarian, putting him behind, somewhat embarrassingly, not just the likes of Michael Gove but also  the backbench Conservative MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Andrew Bowie.

Ipsos Mori observes that: “Boris Johnson is cited as the most impressive by fewer Conservative MPs than even Theresa May at her nadir, though he still outdoes the lowest scores of Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn both of whom were selected by none of their colleagues as the most impressive parliamentarian at points in their leaderships.”

At the other end of the Palace of Westminster meanwhile, Savanta ComRes has published a poll of Peers and their attitudes to Brexit.  

Asked about whether the European Union had been fair throughout the Brexit negotiations, 44% said it had, with 38% saying it had not. Whilst 67% of Conservatives felt the EU had not been fair, the same proportion, 68%, of Labour Peers felt the EU had been fair. The independent Crossbench group of Peers were more evenly split.

Just 28% of Peers surveyed felt the Government is doing a good job in handling Brexit, with 66% disagreeing. Whilst no Labour or Liberal Democrat Peer felt able to agree that the Government was doing a good job, 63% of Conservative Peers said it was doing well.

With the future of the UK as an entity now in the balance, 78% of Peers said that Brexit would damage the four nations of the UK.

Overall, just 38% of Peers felt Brexit was a good thing for the UK, with 67% disagreeing with this. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Conservative Peers were most optimistic about Brexit, with no Labour Peers agreeing Brexit would be good for the UK.

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