good morning. Thank you to Simeon, Jim, Anna, Lucy, Miranda and Georgina for filling me up while I was away. (And yesterday, I placed the cover through the fascinating work of AI and Potholes and doubled it on Georgina with both offering it.)
Shaking away the rust of today’s holiday, yougov has both published new polls that will make you think. Some thoughts about the following:
Lost Leader
How did Kemi Badenoch’s first 100 days as a leader of the opposition unfold? Not good. As Lucy Fisher revealed in Badennock’s incredible work in the first 100 days, I believe the party’s figures will have until the 2026 local elections until things turn around. A new poll from YouGov, released to mark a milestone, highlights the scale of the challenge.
She kicks out Kiel Starmer, who is tied to Nigel Farage, despite who will be the best prime minister, whose ratings hit record low since he took office. Given how important this measure is, it is an important memory that workers are the best political parties, as they are manifest despite the difficulties of many inherited self-harm.
But for a conservative leader, the most worrying part of this poll isn’t her priorities and how she plays with Farage. That’s how she plays to Liberal Democratic leader Ed Davy. It’s extremely difficult to see how conservatives can govern on their own without recouping most of the 59 seats the liberal Democrats have received from them last year.
Plus, frankly, the point of the Conservative Party is not clear whether they can win seats, such as the 11 Surrey constituencies held by Lib Dems. Or hazel gloves. Or, once the seat of Theresa May, Maidenhead. If you lose all of your Oxfordshire seats and currently own only two of Cambridgeshire’s eight constituencies, what is the Tory Party for? Isn’t it meant to be a party that, in favor of residents in places like Surrey, Hazel Grove, Bicester and Woodstock, roughly speaking, creating people like them? The challenge isn’t just that the path to conservative government will run by reclaiming Lib Dem Seats. That is, the very purpose of such a government depends on it.
Of course, in my view, parties can gain power even if they don’t have a clear sense of that focus that was lacking in both conservatives in 2019 and workers in 2024. But his absence partially explains why Tories were difficult last time, and that is part of why Labor is in office.
When I went on vacation, the labor government was clearly focused on growth and the economy. Go back to know that there is an AstraZeneca-sized blind spot at this focus.
Part of the question of labour government is that, in the absence of a set of clear principles and objectives from the Centre, it is inevitable that “do voters really care?” Most voters don’t care about the growth of abstraction, and according to this new poll, they don’t think it will benefit them, according to more commonalities.
Frankly, there’s very little to say about this poll other than “They’re wrong!” Whether you’re a pensioner who votes for reform, or a graduate of the private rental sector, what you want from the government to vote for reform, if you have higher growth and higher tax revenues, no matter what you want, It will become more achievable. But that skepticism about growth means that even simple steps to get the latter are controversial. See, for example, public opinion that they are not proceeding with further plans to change the tax status of so-called “non-dome”.
Again, I’m sorry for the unfortunate record. People are joking here! The non-dome had paid approximately £8.49 billion in taxes per year by April 2022. People don’t need to find £85 billion tax increases or spending cuts to feel better about the equity of the UK tax system.
But if your government’s only guideline principle is election convenience, you don’t try to use fiscal firepower to promote economic growth, but even if it is always the most prominent in the election, It’s not a way to try and win the election five years away.
100 days after Badenok’s leadership, the difficult truth for both the government and the opposition is that their greatest assets are one another.
Try this now
We had a wonderful time in Sri Lanka. It was a truly wonderful wedding. Also, we had a fun comedy theater camp among the entertainment options in the flight, so that was good too.
Today’s top stories
Moody Blue | British workers Peer Lord Maurice Glassman says that as tensions grow among the socially conservative and progressive weapons of the Kiel Starmers Party, Attorney General Richard Harmer has been making his I asked to be excluded from the post. In an interview with the new politician, Glassman said of Helmer: “He is the absolute archetype of a rog-harmed, progressive fool.”
Ryan “deeply regrets” comments on WhatsApp | Congressional lawmakers have been suspended from Congressional Party over offensive comments shared by WhatsApp group. Oliver Ryan was a member of the same messaging group as former health minister Andrew Gwyn.
Keep Cool | The UK has reduced the impact of US tariffs on steel and aluminum on the UK economy, despite the UK’s steel industry warning that Donald Trump’s proposal is “devastating.”
I will be that judge | The dying case that I subsidize does not need to be signed by a high court judge based on a groundbreaking change of law proposed by the author of the bill. Today, Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has submitted what she calls an “Judge Plus” amendment to her bill, claiming the new measures will make it “more robust.”
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