More in Common’s tracker of party leader approval ratings has seen Burnham drop by six points. It’s nothing, they’re telling themselves in Downing Street…
High early ratings usually come from people not knowing who you are. Burnham is now down from 20 points to fourteen. He’s still above the rest…
Badenoch is positive on +1 and Polanski is down to his joint lowest ever at -29. Whatever happened to him?
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.”