Rishi Sunak now more unpopular than Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn

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Rishi Sunak is now more unpopular than each Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn on the peak of their unpopularity, a brand new survey reveals.

The Conservative PM is struggling to reverse his celebration’s dire polling fortunes, and his personal private standing with the British public has a success a brand new low.

Mr Sunak has a web approval score of minus 48, in keeping with the most recent IpsosUK ballot – decrease than both Mr Johnson or Mr Corbyn after they resigned.

Mr Johnson’s approval score was minus 45 when he was booted out of No 10 by his personal celebration, whereas Mr Corbyn’s was minus 44 when he give up as Labour chief following the thumping 2019 election defeat.

The Tory chief can take some small consolation from the actual fact is barely more in style than Liz Truss when she left No 10 in shame within the autumn of 2022 with an approval score of minus 51.

IpsosUK pollster Keiran Pedley cautioned that “ratings can go up and down so Rishi Sunak’s should not be seen as set in stone”.

“However, it may concern the Conservatives that the prime minister’s poll ratings are so low as we head towards a general election,” he added.

A number one Johnson supporter has claimed that “at least” 29 Conservative MPs have submitted letters of no confidence in opposition to Mr Sunak.

Andrea Jenkyns – a Tory backbencher who has been a constant critic of Mr Sunak – mentioned that more than two dozen colleagues had instructed her that they had handed in letters.

“Talk of letters is always nonsense – only Sir Graham [Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee] knows how many are in,” one Sunak ally instructed The Independent. The senior Tory mentioned it might be “madness” to interchange the present chief earlier than the normal election.

But discuss of changing Mr Sunak continues to rumble on. Right-wing Tory rebels instructed The Times that the celebration’s terrible polling imply there was “nothing left to lose” in making an attempt to interchange their chief as soon as once more.

“Even John Major got 31 per cent in 1997. No Conservative leader can survive being at 20 per cent for very long. If this persists until the election the Conservative party is dead for 10 to 15 years,” one mentioned.

This week’s YouGov survey provides Labour an astonishing 27-point lead over the Tories (47 per cent to twenty per cent). It follows the polling firm’s MRP mega-poll which predicted the Conservatives had been on the right track to carry simply 169 sears in a 1997-style wipeout.

The recent rows got here as Mr Sunak urged friends to “crack on” with the Rwanda invoice within the House of Lords – saying he needed to get the deportation flights “up and running” as quickly as attainable.

But the most recent ballot reveals that the general public isn’t satisfied by his Rwanda plan. A majority – 51 per cent of voters – assume the PM’s deportation coverage will fail to ship asylum seekers to the African nation, whereas simply 21 per cent assume he’ll reach getting flights began.

More voters (39 per cent) again the Rwanda plan than oppose it (28 per cent), in keeping with the Redfield & Wilton Strategies survey for the i newspaper. But the findings counsel a jadedness concerning the challenge.

Some 42 per cent of voters say Rwanda deportation flights wouldn’t affect which celebration they vote for, whereas 16 per cent mentioned the Tory plan make them more more likely to vote for a rival celebration.