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British PM Liz Truss is already more unpopular than her predecessor in the government, also Tory Boris Johnson, and even than former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, according to a poll released on Wednesday, coinciding with the closing of the Conservative Congress in Birmingham (central England).
The new chief executive’s popularity has plummeted in recent days after a tumultuous week in which she has been questioned following the announcement of her economic plan to grow the economy and after backtracking on one of the measures in that program, the lowering of the top income tax bracket from 45% to 40%.
This survey, released today by YouGov on its website, reveals that only 14% of citizens now admit to having a “favorable” impression of Truss, compared to 26% surveyed between September 21 and 22.
Nearly three-quarters of respondents, 73%, now view the British PM “unfavorably”, and more than half, 55%, perceive her “very unfavorably”.
According to these data, the so-called “favorability” score (how voters perceive the leader) drops 28 points for Truss to “-59” in less than a fortnight, a worse result even than former Tory PM Boris Johnson’s -53, when his popularity plummeted to a record low at the beginning of last July.
But it is also worse than that recorded by former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who at his worst moments of popularity scored a “-55” on this index by voters.
