It's a big few weeks coming up for the government. We need to see real progress on dealing with COVID 19 by end May in terms of reducing infection rates, hospitalisations and deaths, together with some genuine progress on loosening social restrictions ie as a minimum allowing one household to engage freely with another household from 1 June.
If this doesn't happen the government severely risks losing the goodwill and support of the people. And I say this as a gentle and moderate Government supporter.
You don’t have that much time.
Popularity and unpopularity is part of politics, but only 6 months into this parliament Boris has no need to be looking at the opinion polls either way
I agree with that - but it has to be very likely that he will be less popular in 2024 than he is at the moment.
It depends on the outcome of covid down the line to be fair
It could go either way
Serious question. The Tory party can be pretty ruthless when a leader falls out of favour. Can you see Boris Johnson blotting his copy book to the extent he is forced out. Is his own party imay be more likely to unseat him than Labour?
Yes; if Boris is no longer popular then what is the point of him? He was elected leader because of his poll leads, not his politics. Look back to the general election and note that Boris won on Labour's 2017 platform. Boris won by being a better Jeremy Corbyn rather than a better Theresa May. Indeed, Boris ran against Cameron and May. Though having said all that, I think Boris may well retire before he is pushed.
Comments