Our very mixed poll shows PM must come out all guns blazing before next election
PM must come out all guns blazing
OUR poll today is a very mixed bag for Rishi Sunak.
It is depressing for the PM that almost 40 per cent of voters think he has made zero progress on his five key priorities.
And for a Tory Prime Minister to be less trusted on law and order than a Labour leader will be particularly hard to stomach, especially given Sir Keir Starmer’s chequered record in charge of the CPS.
Yet he can take a significant boost from the fact that he is more trusted on the economy than his Labour rival.
Rishi inherited a hugely challenging financial situation, after the market meltdown of Liz Truss’s premiership.
To have convinced the country in less than a year that the Tories are sounder than Labour on the nation’s finances is a considerable feat.
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And it speaks volumes about voters’ wariness of Sir Keir’s spending plans.
So Rishi must come out all guns blazing on the economy.
The good news is that Britain bounced back from Covid better than blundering ONS statisticians initially claimed, outperforming Germany, France, Italy and Japan.
But inflation is far from beaten and voters are still crushed by the highest tax burden since the war.
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The PM needs to convince them he will get the state off their back, cut taxes and put money back in their pockets.
He must also reset unattainable net zero targets which hammer businesses, motorists and those struggling the most.
Getting this message across is Rishi’s best shot at improving his ratings.
Then he can cling to the old adage that leaders who are most trusted on the economy generally win elections.
Khan’s woke-up call
THE Ulez tax is bad enough.
But it gets even worse when you see the woke projects that London Mayor Sadiq Khan is funding with public money.
He has handed a hefty £100,000 to a charity that has held gender-swap workshops for children as young as seven.
This outfit gives controversial advice on breast-binding and tells young people they can change their name, pronouns and title “at any time”.
Khan’s handout is another sign of his power-mad obsession with woke politics.
He has already forced through the hated Ulez expansion scheme that could turn into Labour’s poll tax.
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But if the Tories want to turn the tide against wokery ahead of the next general election, they have a clear starting point.
It is to defeat this pompous political poser in next May’s mayoral vote.