Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gives a speech at Romsey Rugby Club, Hampshire, while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture date: Wednesday July 3, 2024. Tory voters have given up on the party’s ability to fix the UK’s problems, a new poll has revealed as the country goes to the polls.
The research by More in Common for the New Britain Projects shows the scale of the growing disillusionment with the government’s performance among those who backed theA year ago, 40% of them believed “nothing in Britain works any more”. That figure has now soared to 61%. And while 44% thought “the social contract in Britain is broken” 12 months ago, the number feeling the same now has grown to 65%.Anna McShane, director of the New Britain Project, said: “This will be deeply worrying for the Conservatives. Our latest findings show that not only has the prime minister failed to convince voters that Britain has turned the corner, but people actually believe things have continued to get worse over the past year, particularly among those who voted Tory in 2019.
“Incorporating frontline voices into policymaking will be crucial to ensure these policies actually work and to prevent the same disillusionment from hitting Labour.”Tories On Course For Election Disaster As Labour Head For 1997-Style Win, New Poll SaysSign up and we will email you daily with the best of our political and news coverage while also giving you a taste of our most-popular lifestyle, opinion and personal blogs.
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