A new poll suggests that three quarters of Britons say long NHS waiting lists, rising taxes, strikes and inflation fuelling the cost-of-living crisis are making the UK a “worse place to live”.
The Ipsos survey for the Evening Standard will make uncomfortable reading for the Conservatives as Rishi Sunak receives his lowest satisfaction score as Prime Minister.
The Government has also sunk to a record low on how its stewardship of the economy is perceived.
It also scored dismally on taxation, public expenditure, improving the health service, dealing with crime and managing immigration.
Key findings include 76 per cent of respondents think Britain’s becoming a worse place to live, compared to 49 per cent in June 2010 at the start of the Cameron and Osborne austerity years.
It comes amid a General Election on the horizon within 18 months.
Regarding electoral voting intentions, Labour is on 45 per cent, down two points, the Tories 28 per cent, up three points, and the Liberal Democrats at 12 per cent, down one point.
So, how worried should the Conservatives be? To unpick what this latest poll means, the Leader podcast’s joined by Keiran Pedley, research director at Ipsos.
We discuss how Sunak’s voter satisfaction compares to his predecessors, the challenges of long-term election forecasting, how Ipsos gathers its data and statistical margin of error.
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