Rishi Sunak
Eight in 10 former Tory voters think the party would have a better chance of winning the election with a leader who embraces «traditional Conservative values», a poll circulating among MPs has found.
The poll, commissioned by long-time party supporter Lady McAlpine, is likely to reinforce fears in Number 10 that the Prime Minister's leadership is more vulnerable . after Thursday's by-election defeats.
Lord Moylan, a Conservative peer, said the party had a «possible path» to victory if it «get rid of» Mr Sunak and adopt new policies.
Lady McAlpine commissioned Whitestone Insight, a member of the British Electoral Council set up by ComRes founder Andrew Hawkins, to conduct an online survey of 13,534 British adults between 23 January and 7 February.
The poll shows Labor ahead of the Conservatives by 22 percentage points.
Sir Keir Starmer's party won 42 per cent of the vote, compared with 20 per cent for the Conservatives, 13 per cent for the Reformists and 10 per cent for the Liberal Democrats.
The survey also tested the responses of current and former Conservative voters to a range of questions.
It found that eight in 10 «ex-Conservatives» — those who have voted Tory in the past but now plan to support another party — agreed with the statement that the party «will have a better chance of winning the next election with someone who who has more traditional Conservative values than Rishi Sunak.»
In a note analyzing the results, Whitestone Insight said: «Replacing Rishi Sunak could mean the difference between obliteration, honorable defeat or perhaps even somehow clinging to power, according to the poll.»
Another In a blow to the Prime Minister, 70 per cent of current Tory voters said the party was «wrong to force Boris Johnson to resign.»
A Tory MP who saw the poll said: “This is devastating. I fear that Rishi is failing not because he engages only a small minority, as Jeremy Corbyn did, but because he engages no one.
“Voters demand a more conservative Conservative Party and any leader worth their salt will would clean up.”
In an article in The Telegraph, Lord Moylan said the Tories faced a “catastrophic result” in the election.
The peer, who is a close ally of Johnson, said the poll showed there was a «possible path» to victory. «The problem is that the first step is getting rid of Sunak, and the second is adopting policies that, even now, as the flaming roof is falling in, many Tory MPs do not approve of,» he said.
The poll found that 62 per cent of people support reducing overall migration to the UK, while 28 are against it.
Fifty per cent oppose phasing out diesel and petrol cars by 2035, compared with 40 per cent who support Mr Sunak's goal.
The poll comes after a tough week for the Prime Minister, in which the Tories lost twice. It was confirmed that the elections in Kingswood and Wellingborough and the UK led to a recession.
A minister loyal to Mr Sunak said the party must rally behind its leader.
“There is a long way to go before the election and the right answer is to come forward, support the leader and get on with it,” they said . “If we don't stick together, we'll all be hanged separately.”
Lady McAlpine told The Telegraph that she had been a lifelong Tory supporter and that the McAlpine family had made significant donations over the years. .
However, she said she resigned as Wycombe Conservative president earlier this month in protest at the party's central leadership.
She said: “Why did I pay for this poll? Because I want to know what voters really think. Because I don't want another Labor government. Because I have seen the Conservative Party and everything it once stood for destroyed and, like so many others, I feel that the only way forward is to abandon the rotten core and start again.»
'Reformed Conservatives'Lady McAlpine said she first smelled the «rot» in the party when Conservative campaign headquarters interfered with Wycombe's selection process ahead of the 2010 election.
She said she would have preferred that Mr Johnson is back, but that a «new, squeaky clean» Conservative Party could also unite with a reformist Britain.
“We could defeat the Labor Party if we returned Boris to leadership.” now the Central Office mafia has also been fired,” she said. «Or we could field a combination of 'reformed Conservatives' and reformists.»
She said the party needed to «stop wasting time and money» on net zero and «dismantling and rebuilding the NHS with doctors and nurses.» ” responsible, “stand up to public service” and “stop the boats.”
A government source said: “Rishi has delivered the biggest package of tax cuts since the 1980s, more than a third, and introduced the toughest tax legislation yet fight against illegal migration among all prime ministers in history.
He stopped the Just Stop Oil movement, cut anti-social behavior by almost 50 per cent in hotspots and supported strengthening our energy security with more British mining licenses oil and gas. His plan is the Conservative plan, it is starting to work, and only by sticking to it and uniting behind it will we be able to take the fight to Labour.”
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