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Originally Posted by Hugh
And some think these guys could negotiate a better deal with the EU - they’ve managed to increase TM’s support amongst the public.
Not what they were planning, methinks...
From tomorrow’s Times.
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Here are the details of the poll:
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Originally Posted by The Times
A week ago 33 per cent of voters backed Mrs May staying in her post and 47 per cent wanted her to go, a YouGov poll for The Times showed. Now 46 per cent say that she should stay and 34 per cent want her to stand down. The poll of 1,647 adults was taken on Monday and Tuesday.
The poll also shows that Mrs May’s fortunes have most improved among Tory voters. A week ago 43 per cent who voted Conservative in the 2017 general election said that they wanted her to stand down. Now only 27 per cent want her to resign. The proportion of 2016 Leave voters who want her to resign has dropped from 55 per cent a week ago to 39 per cent now.
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Massive turnaround for her. I suspect mostly because of the rebellion and May's tenacity. I was, am, not a massive fan of Theresa May but I have to give her credit for sticking around to get the job in the face of a rebellious party and poor election results. While the likes of Boris did nothing in their departments and then ran away
again she stuck at it.
It does make you wonder if we were taking the ERG too seriously though. The party and the country have endured a melodrama of wondering when Jacob Rees Mogg and Steve Baker would fire the starting gun and when the moment came, complete with Mogg grandstanding in Parliament and Baker holding press conferences, nothing happened.
Steve Baker especially has been protrayed as the silent powerbroker of the Conservative Party, the genius behind Brexit. Maybe he was just more willing to talk to journalists writing books about Brexit....