Liz Truss' approval ratings are now worse than Boris Johnson's at the height of the Partygate scandal

Liz's endorsement notes Truss are now worse than his predecessor Boris Johnson ever were, plunging even lower than his worst poll result at the height of the Partygate scandal.

Opinium's disastrous poll comes on the heels of the chaotic and pessimistic Conservative Party conference, which comes just days after the Bank of England was forced to intervene to save Britain's pension funds and ease the economic turmoil caused by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's mini budget. /p>

Carried out exactly one month since Ms Truss entered Downing Street, the poll found that Ms Truss' popularity had dropped by 10 points in the span of week's ace, now languishing at -47%.

That's even lower than Mr Johnson's. ow of -44 during the Covid rule breaking scandal revelations in issue 10 and Theresa May's score of -46 in the days before her resignation.

There seems to be a huge appetite for a general election, with 61% of those polled wanting to vote this year on whether Ms Truss' Tories should stay in power.

Only a quarter of the more than 2,000 respondents think Ms Truss should remain in Tory leader, against 53 per cent who want her to quit, including a quarter of Tory voters.

On who should replace her in No 10, Sir Keir Starmer was the favorite with a clear approval rating of +9, and his Labor Party's 47-point 26-point lead in the polls is the largest ever recorded by Opinium - and includes one in four people who voted Conservative in the US election. 2019 dominated by the question of Brexit.

It looks like Ms Truss will not be able to rely on the rallying cause of Brexit – so often seized upon by her predecessor in times of adversity or scandal – to boo t her support. Prime Minister's ratings are almost as low among Leave voters as Remain, with 61% and 74% respectively disapproving of her.

If Ms Truss were to step down and be replaced by another Tory, the most the popular choice would be his leadership rival Rishi Sunak - the former chancellor who called his disastrous tax-cutting policies a "fairy tale" during a heated debate.

However, the pole Mr Sunak's position was due more to his rivals' lackluster performance than his own popularity - with his -7% score on who voters said would make a good Prime Minister ahead of Mr Johnson (-22), Michael Gove (-37), Penny Mordaunt (-11) and Mr Kwarteng (-53).

Mr Kwarteng's ratings as chancellor were even worse than Ms Truss's, plunging 11 points to -51 after the U-turn on his surprise abolition of the highest tax rate during a cost of living crisis - which spooked traders, earned a reprimand from the International Monetary Fund and nearly crashed the government bond market.

"The Conservative Party Conference apparently failed to -it, gave the Truss administration the boost it could have hoped for in the polls," said Adam Drummond, Opinium's policy and political officer. social research.

“The fact that the Prime Minister appears determined to avoid raising Universal Credit's rating in line with inflation puts her on the wrong side of public opinion on the issue.

"While voters generally appreciate politicians flip-flopping to drop unpopular policies, the fact that 'turning around to drop unpopular policies' seems to have defined its mandate thus far. means she doesn't even have the advantage of being seen as principled, her grades for that are as bad as they are for being competent or being a strong leader. -22, down slightly from the record 33-point lead that had cast a further shadow over a Conservative conference marred by infighting, extraordinary Cabinet indiscipline and Ms. Truss' U-turn. /p >

This contrasted with a fluid labor conference a few days earlier widely seen...