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Ipsos Mori poll. 1-5 Feb 2018. Adds yet another pollster result re Corbyn’s “leadership”
“Mr Corbyn’s net satisfaction score of minus 55 is comparable with the worst days of Michael Foot, regarded as the party’s worst ever leader, who took it to a catastrophic defeat in 1983.”
“Mr Corbyn’s net satisfaction score of minus 55 is comparable with the worst days of Michael Foot, regarded as the party’s worst ever leader, who took it to a catastrophic defeat in 1983.”
2/. Since December the proportion of the public satisfied with his performance has slumped from 27 per cent to 17 per cent — the lowest number recorded in Ipsos MORI’s archives by any Labour leader apart from Mr Foot, who dipped to 13 per cent in 1982.
3/. “The proportion who are dissatisfied with Mr Corbyn has jumped from 59 to 72 per cent since December.
Under half of Labour voters (44 per cent) are happy with him. Tory leader Theresa May still enjoys a positive rating of +34 among Conservative voters.
Under half of Labour voters (44 per cent) are happy with him. Tory leader Theresa May still enjoys a positive rating of +34 among Conservative voters.
4/. Just 20% of people trust Mr Corbyn to make the right decisions on Europe, which trails behind even Mrs May’s low figure of 34%
Gideon Skinner, head of political research at Ipsos MORI, said the unusual thing about Mr Corbyn was that he was up against an unpopular premier.
Gideon Skinner, head of political research at Ipsos MORI, said the unusual thing about Mr Corbyn was that he was up against an unpopular premier.
5/. “Often in our trends when one leader is down another is in the ascendant, but that isn’t the case now,” he said.
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6/. If he had any integrity of real care for the Party, members, voters or the country he would resign saying he recognise he views do not align with the majority of Labour Party members, voters or MPs & the party would be better led by someone whose views were more congruent.
7/. That is the 3rd polling company in a day that have come up with similar results.
8/. See also this on the downturn in Labour’s support across just about every demographic, tracked across 70 You Gov polls.
9/. And this from Opinium.
