Kemi Badenoch, Business Secretary, has seen approval ratings drop. Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Kemi Badenoch's approval rating among Conservative voters plummeted after her planned Brexit bonfire was derailed.
Earlier this month, a business secretary accused Whitehall of ” drop” as it abandoned plans to lift thousands of EU-era rules by the end of the year.
In this month's ranking of Cabinet ministers by ConservativeHome, the Conservative news and opinion website, Ms. Badenoch's net satisfaction score dropped nearly 15 points, from 60.4 to 46.7.< /p>
The slump means it has dropped from second to fourth place. — placing her below Ben Wallace, Penny Mordaunt and James Cleverley — among Conservative supporters who took part in the survey, which was released on Monday morning.
Kemi Badenoch remains defiant
Ms. Badenoch remained defiant in the face of supporters' anger Eurosceptics, who say her decision to repeal only a fraction of the 4,800 remaining laws in Brussels by the end of the year has undermined her chances in a future leadership struggle. /p>
During a heated urgent matter in the House of Commons, she appeared to compare the members of the European Study Group (ERG) to her political opponents in the Labor Party and insisted she struck the right balance, calling her critics “people who say but cannot do” .
Elsewhere in the standings, Ms Mordaunt, leader of the House of Commons, saw her net score rise from 49.5 last month to 62.4.
She was widely praised for her role as the sword at the King's coronation, which formed part of her official duties as Lord President of the Privy Council at the ceremony.
Ms Mordaunt was dressed in a tailored turquoise gown and cape for her role of a sword while holding an 8-pound (3.6 kg) Sword Stay in the air for approximately 51 minutes.
Penny Mordaunt's role in the coronation earned her widespread praise. Photo: Yui Mok/AP
Mr. Cleverly, the foreign secretary, remained in third place with 56.5 points, and criticism of his approach to China had little effect on his popularity among the general public.
Mr. Cleverly was forced to defend himself after how he refused to reclassify Beijing as a “threat” in response to its aggressive foreign policy and persecution of Uyghur Muslims.
Rishi Sunak, who was sixth on the April leaderboard, dropped to 14th among his party's supporters, and his result fell from 47.4 to 21.6.
This is consistent with the results of a separate survey released on Monday by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, which showed that the prime minister's approval rating among all voters fell to its lowest level in three months.
Swella Braverman, his secretary of the interior, rose from seventh to sixth place, but her net percentage the figure has declined after a series of disputes over the past few weeks.
These include an argument over a speeding ticket and her speech at a National Conservative conference that made remarks about migration that were taken as a challenge to Mr. Sunak.
Mr. Wallace, Secretary of Defense, remains the most popular member of Mr. Sunak's team as he continues to impress activists with his response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
For the first time in the history of the ConservativeHome poll, half a dozen cabinet ministers have registered a net negative approval rating.
Teresa Coffey, Environment Secretary, has registered the lowest rating at -10.4, while Michael Gove, Grant Shapps, Andrew Mitchell, Jeremy Hunt and Robert Jenrick also scored less than zero.
Paul Goodman, the website's founder and former Conservative MP, said it was “a sign that the commission is completely fed up “. with the government as a whole.”
“The scores of almost everyone… [go down] and the scores of the exceptions only rise slightly.”
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