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MORE than half of British voters think Liz Truss should resign as prime minister and 80 per cent blame the government for the rising cost of living, a new poll has found.
In the poll conducted over the weekend, 53 per cent of people told Ipsos that Truss should quit and only 20 per cent would oppose her resignation.
In the months before he resigned, Boris Johnson recorded similar figures, ranging between 50 per cent and 59 per cent of people saying he should go over the course of 2022.
The poll, which surveyed 1,000 British adults between Oct. 14 and 17, found just 13 per cent of people believed Truss was likely to win the next election – less than half of the 30 per cent that thought Johnson could win shortly before he resigned.
The figures come as Truss faces her third clash with opposition Labour leader, Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in parliament on Wednesday, in what could be her toughest encounter with the Labour leader yet after Jeremy Hunt ripped up her economic policy on Monday.
Adding to the prime minister’s problems, only 14 per cent expect that the new Chancellor will change the economy for the better.
Some 35 per cent said Jeremy Hunt’s appointment would make no difference, while 27 per cent thought it would change things for the worse.
The only positive note for the Conservatives was that the public is still divided over whether Labour had a good plan for the economy.
Some 40 per cent said they were confident that the opposition had a good long-term economic plan, while 47 per cent said they were not confident.
However, just 17 per cent said they were confident in the Conservatives’ long-term economic plan compared to 74 per cent saying they were not confident. (PA Media/dpa/NAN)
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