Ipsos has carried out crucial polling into which UK politician fits the description of ‘brat’. The trend is spawned from the eponymous album by hyperpop singer Charli XCX and has been seized on by Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. Barack Obama has put music from the album on his ‘summer playlist’. No one is really sure what ‘brat’ means, but the singer gave it a go:
“You are just that girl who is a little messy and maybe says dumb things sometimes, who feels herself but then also maybe has a breakdown but parties through it. It is honest, blunt and a little bit volatile. That’s Brat.”
So, the messy fun type. Among UK politicians Boris has pipped Farage to the post to take the top spot. Starmer, who is neither messy nor fun, comes in third, followed by Angela Rayner. No doubt Jess Phillips was angling for No 1 by turning up to Edinburgh Fringe and calling herself “the naughty girl” minister…
Will Suella be regretting her departure from the leadership race now she has been declared more brat than Kemi and Priti? Tongues will be wagging in SW1…
Some interesting leadership polling has been done by the team over at PeoplePolling for Matt Goodwin. A little over 2,000 2019 Tory voters who refused to vote for the Party this time were asked to rank leadership potentials…
Voters were asked which Tory leader would be most likely to convince them to vote for the party next time. Among 2019 Tories who voted Labour, the rankings were:
- Boris and Cameron have joint lead with 9% each.
- Nigel Farage on 6%.
- Cleverly, Badenoch, and Tugendhat on 4%.
- The rest trail. Only Jenrick has 0% with this crowd…
For Reform defectors:
- Farage with 42%. Naturally…
- Boris and Braverman tied on 12%.
- Badenoch in a distant third with 4%.
For LibDem movers:
- Boris with 10%. He didn’t just get red wall votes, remember…
- Cameron and Tugendhat joint second on 8%.
- Cleverly just behind on 6%.
No mandate for centrism here. Across the entire board Farage comes first on 25%, followed by Boris on 11%, then Suella, the only current Tory MP out of those three, on 8%. Cameron has of course given up the Shadow Foreign Office brief and is off on holiday. Is this why the wets are desperately repeating the party shouldn’t be “captured by the right” on every media appearance they can get?
It’s worth keeping MoreInCommon’s research in mind. No voting group has Boris in mind for the Tory loss.
Guido didn’t hear Tory activists chanting “Rishi, Rishi, Rishi” at any of his rally appearances. Was really it worth culling Boris because of a cake?
Boris Johnson has stormed back onto the campaign trail with a bang, less than two days before the nation heads to the polls. In a rousing appearance, the former Prime Minister took centre stage in central London, introducing Rishi Sunak to a crowd of Tory supporters. He delivered stark warnings of the potential “disaster” of a Labour victory in one last push to rally the troops. That’ll please the 2019 voters…
Read Boris’ full speech below:
Keir Starmer said last night that Jeremy Corbyn would have been a better Prime Minister than Boris Johnson. During the BBC Question Time special, he initially dodged backing his 2019 praise of Corbyn, continuing his trend of distancing himself from the left. However, he let slip that he thinks Corbyn would have been better, compared with Boris. An outlandish remark considering Corbyn would have sent the country into ruins -if he does think that then Starmer is far more left-wing than he pretends to be. Is there such thing as a changed Labour Party?
Sunak offered enthusiastic birthday wishes to Boris (whose 60th birthday it is) on his LBC phone-in this morning:
“Happy birthday Boris! I hope he’s having a good day. It’s been great to having him supporting the Conservative Party, he’s been endorsing lots of candidates with videos and letters and that’s really great and I know makes a big difference.”
Happy birthday from Guido too…
