The latest YouGov Westminster opinion poll with the Times has the four top parties within seven points of each other:
- RFM 24% (-3)
- LAB 19% (=)
- CON 18% (=)
- GRN 17% (+1)
- LDEM 13% (-1)
The Greens are maintaining a consistent lead over the LibDems and sit comfortably one/two points behind the Tories and Labour. Reform has dipped again after recovering from another slump three weeks ago…
In a separate just-released poll by JL Partners for the Sun, Reform is at its highest level of support since September:
Bodes for an explosive set of local elections…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”
