JUST one in 20 voters believe the Conservative Party should continue in its current form, a new poll reveals today.
The People Polling poll for GBNews saw a plurality of people say they would to “completely replace” the Party.
When asked which of the statements comes closest to their view, only 5% selected “The Conservative Party should continue in its current form”. Twenty-three per cent felt the party should continue but in a different form, and 38% felt it should be completely replaced.
Politics expert Professor Matthew Goodwin said: “This will ring very loud alarm bells in Conservative Party headquarters. Only one in twenty voters, and not even one in five 2019 Tories think the Conservative Party should continue in its current form. This provides the backdrop to the inevitable leadership election campaign that will commence if and when Rishi Sunak loses the 2024 general election.”
There was further bad news for the Tories, with the poll indicating Labour’s lead over the Conservatives has now stretched to 25 points.
It puts the Labour Party on 40%, Reform UK 21%, the Conservative Party on 15%, the Liberal Democrats on 9%, and the Green Party on 9%.
Professor Goodwin said: “Consistent with other polls we have a strong Labour lead, though unlike other recent polls we have Reform in second place, though down 3 points on last week, and the Conservatives once again on 15%. In recent days.
“Regarding Reform, the polls have been mixed with a high of 19% with Redfield and Wilton and a low of 14% with other pollsters. A recent MRP this week also put Reform on 18 seats. We have Reform down on last week but still high, in relative terms, on 21% of the national vote.
The poll also found most Brits do not believe Labour will improve the national economy. When asked what difference a Labour government would make to the national economy, only 21% of voters felt Labour would make the economy stronger while 26% thought Labour would weaken the economy and 23% felt it would make no difference.
Professor Goodwin said: “At the start of this election I said this would become the ‘None of the Above’ election, with widespread disillusionment with both of the big parties. Here again we can see this, with little public enthusiasm for a likely incoming Labour government on the economy. Given the tight fiscal constraints Labour will face in power if they win the election this appears to suggest the party will likely become unpopular very quickly”.
Meanwhile the poll also found only one in four voters support Labour’s policy to make gender transition easier. When told that Labour plans to simplify the process of gender transition, by removing the need to live in a different gender for two years, only 24% of voters support the policy while 41% oppose it. Among Conservatives, 12% support it while 66% oppose it.
Professor Goodwin said: “Once again, consistent with previous polls, we find that the more ‘woke’ policies pushed by gender ideologies actually only have minority public support. Only one in four support Labour’s proposals while a plurality of all voters and a large majority of Conservatives oppose them”.
