{"id":121636,"date":"2023-11-23T20:09:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T20:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=121636"},"modified":"2023-11-23T20:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T20:09:03","slug":"tories-in-death-spiral-autumn-statement-made-awful-poll-ratings-even-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/tories-in-death-spiral-autumn-statement-made-awful-poll-ratings-even-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Tories ‘in death spiral’ – Autumn Statement made ‘awful’ poll ratings even worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

GMB: Susanna Reid warns Jeremy Hunt ‘you haven’t got long’<\/h3>\n

A\u00a0Tory MP has warned that the party is “locked in a death spiral” as the latest weekly tracker poll has revealed that Labour’s lead grew last week after Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn Statement.<\/p>\n

The Techne UK survey of 1,640 voters revealed that among those who know how they will vote, Labour now leads the Conservatives by 25 points, up one from last week.<\/p>\n

The polling was done after the Chancellor had completed his Autumn Statement which had included measures to help reverse the Tories’ steep popularity decline.<\/p>\n

Measures like protecting the triple lock guarantee\u00a0<\/b>on pension increases, cutting two percent off National Insurance contributions and record business tax relief seem to have failed to have convinced voters to support the Tories again.<\/p>\n

Instead, the party lost one point, going down 21 percent while Labour remained the same on 46 percent.<\/p>\n

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Even more concerning for the Downing Street strategy team is that a mere 39 percent – less than one in four – of Conservative voters from 2019 would now back the party in an election, the lowest it has been since Liz Truss was forced out of office last year.<\/p>\n

And one normally core group of Conservative voters, pensioners aged 64-and-over now support Labour by 40 percent, to 27 percent despite having their state pension protected.<\/p>\n

The poll was taken before the disastrous net migration figures today which has left some Conservative MPs wondering if they have reached rock bottom yet.<\/p>\n

One MP said: “The Autumn Statement just didn’t cut it.”<\/p>\n

Another said: “We are locked in a death spiral, nothing seems to be able to turn things around with this leadership. The poll ratings have been awful.”<\/p>\n

A former cabinet minister warned: “We are in danger of going from a ‘change’ election to a ‘Tories out’ election which will be much worse.”<\/p>\n

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