44% Feel Government is Doing ‘Badly’ According to Ipsos Mori

Ipsos Mori this week published its latest political pulse based on interviews carried out online with a representative sample of 1,009 British adults aged 18+ between 23rd and 26th July 2021

Of note, the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is the only leading politician with a positive net favourability rating, standing, as he does, on +10. In contrast Boris Johnson has a net rating of -20 and Keir Starmer is on -15.

Asked to what degree they had a favourable or unfavourable view of the main political parties; respondents gave the Conservatives a net rating of -18 and Labour -16.

44% felt that the Government was doing badly in running the country compared to 28% saying it was doing well. The polling shows that whilst those questioned felt the Government had performed best in respecting of taking the UK out of the European Union it had performed worse at reducing social divisions.

Asked if they felt the country was heading in the right direction, whilst 30% said it was, 44% said it was heading in the wrong direction.

Meanwhile whilst 33% felt that the UK’s decision to leave the EU has had a positive impact on the country, 40% said it has had a negative impact.

Elsewhere, as the Prime Minister this week used a visit to Scotland to declare that the coal mine closures under Margaret Thatcher gave the country a “big early start” in helping to address the country’s carbon emissions, a daily poll by YouGov suggests the country is split in how it feels about such comments.

According to the survey of 6,440 adults in Great Britain, whilst 27% felt that pit closures in the 1980s were a good thing, 31% felt they were a bad thing. Further polling found that if coal mining remained an industry in the UK today, 41% would support closing it, with 30% saying they would oppose such closures.  

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