POLL RESULTS: Majority of Inverness Courier readers do not back Rishi Sunak as PM and most also want to have a snap general election
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A poll by the Inverness Courier has revealed that the majority of respondents do not believe that Rishi Sunak can do the job as Prime Minister.
He was officially confirmed as new resident of Number 10 yesterday having won the leadership contest for the Conservative party on Monday, unopposed.
People were asked if they have “faith in Rishi Sunak as the new Prime Minister” and 20 per cent do believe he can do the job – not unsubstantial.
But the overwhelming majority of 67 per cent feel that “he is not capable of handling the situation” and just 13 per cent said they did not know one way or the other.
On the issue of staging a general election the results mirrored the earlier question with a majority of 67 per cent backing an immediate vote “in the interests of democracy.”
While 20 per cent of respondents believe that an election right now is unnecessary as “we have a parliamentary system so it is not needed.”
And 13 per cent did not decide one way or another.
What does that mean?
The results are instructive because it would seem that the majority of respondents have no faith in the Conservative party’s leadership of the country.
The clear 67 per cent majority do not back the Prime Minister and would prefer to see an immediate general election to determine who leads the UK.
Politico’s poll of polls aggregates other polling data into one combined poll possibly offering a more rounded assessment and in that Labour lead the Tories by 31 points.
Essentially that means that if there was a general election tomorrow the Conservatives would lose in a landslide.
But there is a stubborn and not insignificant proportion of 20 per cent who want to wait and see what happens.
What that could mean is that if the Prime Minister is able to lead the country without excessive controversy and scandal some ground could be made up.
Realistically the chances of a general election before those numbers even up are slim, at best.
