Survey finds 32pc of adults chose Mr Johnson, with 29pc backing Rishi Sunak and just 3pc opting for Liz Truss
Source - Daily Telegraph - 23/12/22
Boris Johnson is regarded as the “most competent” of 2022’s three prime ministers, a new poll has found.
In a year that saw a trio of Conservative party leaders, the largest share of British adults chose Mr Johnson as the best, according to the People Polling survey.
Thirty-two per cent of respondents said they thought he had been the most competent, followed by 29 per cent for Rishi Sunak.
Just three per cent opted for Liz Truss, who lasted just 45 days in Downing Street before standing down following a disastrous mini-Budget that saw the pound crash and the Bank of England forced into an emergency intervention to calm market turmoil.
The same question was put to those who voted for the Conservatives in the 2019 election. Among Tory voters, 62 per cent said Mr Johnson was the most competent, followed by 22 per cent choosing Mr Sunak and just four per cent opting for Ms Truss.
Prof Matt Goodwin, who carried out the polling, said: “The Boris brand may be damaged but he remains voters’ top choice when they are asked which of the three prime ministers they preferred.
“This is especially true among Conservative voters, who clearly still have a soft spot for Johnson.”
Earlier this month, Sir Jake Berry, the former Tory party chairman, told The Telegraph Tory members were furious about the loss of Mr Johnson from Number 10, combined with a “perceived disenfranchisement” after Ms Truss was driven from Downing Street.
Following Mr Sunak’s “coronation” as Prime Minister, the party was warned that tens of thousands of Tory members would leave in anger at being denied a vote.
If two leadership candidates had passed the threshold of 100 nominations from Tory MPs, members would have been allowed to vote online.
Although Mr Johnson had enough endorsements from MPs to run to be prime minister for a second time following the downfall of Ms Truss, he ultimately decided not to, leaving the path clear for Mr Sunak.
Penny Mordaunt’s failure to get the numbers needed meant that the party’s 160,000 members did not get the chance to vote.
The poll, commissioned by GB News, also found that a majority (57 per cent) of the British public believe that “nothing in Britain works any more”.
It comes amid a series of public sector strikes by ambulance drivers, rail and bus staff, postal workers, driving examiners, road traffic officers and – for the first time in its history – the Royal College of Nursing.
“A majority of the public are clearly very dissatisfied with the state of the country and how, in their eyes, nothing appears to be working,” said Prof Goodwin.
“Amid the strikes, the cost of living crisis and economic volatility, many people are now united by a palpable sense that nothing really appears to be working any more.”
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