The Tory Party have seen a massive uplift in their support further to the appointment of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister.
New polling by Opinium for The Observer shows the Tories enjoying a two-point lead over Labour at 30% which is up 7 points in the last two weeks. The polling was carried out between the 24th and the 26th of July just after Boris took over.
The polling shows the Conservatives benefiting from a surge in support away from The Brexit party. Even more positively for the Conservatives, almost half of Brexit Party voters (47%) say they would now be more likely to support the Tories. This comes as The Brexit Party were criticised by many for an attack video on Boris Johnson that did not go down well with their supporters.
Not since the 2017 election, when Theresa May led the party, has a Tory leader enjoyed such a comfortable margin.
Adam Drummond, senior research manager at Opinium, said the first poll of Johnson’s premiership showed that the Tories plan to unite the Leave vote against divided opposition was working. Among Leave voters, he said support for the Tories was up 12 points, at the expense of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party.Drummond said: “In 2017 the Tory strategy failed in part because of a poor campaign by Theresa May but also because non-Tories united behind Labour to prevent a Tory landslide.This time both party leaders are much more well known than their equivalents were in 2017, so the chances of a late surge are more remote. Labour also have to contend with the fact, unlike 2017, opposing Brexit has revived the Liberal Democrats, meaning their efforts to appeal to both Leavers and Remainers will become more complicated.”The latest poll shows that 25% of the public say they are more likely to vote for the Conservative party now Johnson leads it, with 19% saying they are less likely to.According to Opinium’s polling, some 45% of the public think the UK should go ahead with Brexit irrespective of whether he can agree a better deal. But a similar proportion (41%) think Brexit should be delayed or cancelled altogether.If the prime minister is unsuccessful in negotiating changes to the EU withdrawal agreement and parliament forces the government to seek a further extension, 57% believe a fresh general election should called.
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