YouGov has done its first poll since the general election for Sky News and the Times. Labour has dropped nine points, Reform has gained ten, and the Tories have lost two. Only six months apart, remember…
Views of 2,279 GB voters were collected on Sunday and Monday. Only 54% of Labour voters said they would still vote for the party with a measly 10% of total voters saying the government has been successful so far. 16% of Tory voters now say they would vote Reform, which is the least unpopular party at -32 compared to the Tories way down on -45 and LAbour on -34. With the locals inbound that will make happy reading for Farage…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”