Public Not Overly Impressed by Spring Statement

Following the Chancellor’s Spring Statement yesterday, Opinium published a snap poll to gage the reaction of the public.

It found that whilst 44% of respondents approved of the statement (compared to 19% who disapproved), 65% felt the Government should be doing more.

Politically, Rishi Sunak will be finding hard to swallow the fact that 35% see him as a tax raising Chancellor, compared to just 14% who say he is a tax cutting one. 31% said they felt he was neither one not the other.

Just 26% now approve of the Government’s handling of the economy (-15 since March last year) with 48% disapproving of its handling of the economy (+13).

In good news for Labour, the Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Labour Leader, Keir Stamer (32%) now lead over Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak (31%) on who the public most trust to handle the economy.

Opinium goes on to observe: “Labour is ahead on four of our five key economic metrics, including best party to run the economy. They only train the Conservative’s on best party to “bring down the national debt and deceit”.”

But perhaps most striking of all, it concludes: “And finally, with Rachel Reeves bringing up Alice in Wonderland at the despatch box, 36% think the Conservative’s are the party most living in a fantasy world, compared to 29% who think Labour are.”

YouGov’s snap poll meanwhile found that 69% felt that the announcements made by the Chancellor have not done enough to help people with the increasing cost of living.

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