The result is the worst for the Conservatives since 1978 when Ipsos regular poll tracker started and puts them 27 points behind Labour

The Tories hit rock bottom today with support for their party across Britain falling to a record low of just 20 per cent, according to a new poll.

The Ipsos survey for The Standard showed backing for the Conservatives nosediving by seven points from 27 per cent in January.

The result is the worst for the Tories since 1978 when this regular poll tracker started and puts them a gaping 27 percentage points behind Labour.

Previous Conservative low points were 22 per cent under John Major in December 1994 and May 1995, 23 per cent in July 1997 when New Labour was settling into office under Tony Blair, and 23 per cent in December 2022 shortly after Rishi Sunak took over from Liz Truss’s brief and economically catastrophic administration.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    13·
    9 months ago

    Anyone remember when Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister and the press made him call a general election after six months because he didn’t have a mandate?

  • Tenebris Nox@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    I saw that one of the polls predicted the tories would be left with only 25 seats.

    That’s 25 seats too many!

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      It would be tricky to achieve even if all the frothing gammons naffed off to Reform (or whatever the BNP is calling itself these days) and the rest felt Starmer was sufficiently right of Thatcher, there would still be some people who lived up on the moors with no contact with the outside world who didn’t get the memo, along with a certain percentage who had lingering concussions and just ham-fisted numpties marking the wrong box.

      • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
        2·
        9 months ago

        Gammons! I haven’t heard that term since the good old bad old Brexit days! I think it needs to make a comeback!

        Not that I’d advocate it, but having “milkshake” turned in to the verb “to milkshake” whenever Farage was also somewhat entertaining.

  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    they’ll come surging back for another 16 years after the red tories have a 4 year turn in which they fail to improve anything and are a little bit more restrained about their transphobia than the tories, thus alienating all the frothing transphobes.