UK's Rishi Sunak's Rating Turns Negative For 1st Time Amid Wife's Tax Row
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Rishi Sunak posted a net rating of minus 20 in the latest monthly tracker poll by Savanta ComRes, published on Wednesday. Thats down 26 points in a month, and compares with a high of plus 30 in 2020.
Rishi Sunak's favorability rating turned negative for the first time, sinking below that of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after a slew of damaging stories about the Chancellor of the Exchequer's financial affairs and the perception he isn't doing enough to help Britons facing surging living costs. Sunak drops below Johnson on net favourability for the first timeJohnson -19 (+2)Sunak -20 (-26) pic.twitter.com/p5vLeCUN6J
Sunak posted a net rating of minus 20 in the latest monthly tracker poll by Savanta ComRes, published on Wednesday. That's down 26 points in a month, and compares with a high of plus 30 in 2020. The online poll of 2,145 U.K. adults was conducted April 8-10, before both the chancellor and Johnson were fined by police for breaking the coronavirus rules their own government made.
The survey is the latest blow for the chancellor, who made himself popular by opening the Treasury's spending taps during successive Covid-19 lockdowns and until just weeks ago was widely touted by politicians and the press as Johnson's most likely successor.
