IPSOS have released another round of opinion polls, and the Conservative Party have recorded their lowest ever approval rating.
Only 14% of people said that they would vote Conservative come the next election – a 1% downturn from the previous set of polls conducted by IPSOS in June.
The poll also saw Reform U.K. take a substantial lead of 12 points, with 34% of people saying that they would vote Nigel Farage into power.
Second in the polls were Labour with 22%, followed by the Conservatives (14%), and then the Liberal Democrats and Green were next in joint fourth, both with a share of 12%.
Figures throughout the various opinion polls conducted in recent times do differ slightly, however they all come to the same conclusion on the Tories – they are drastically underperforming.
Alan Lamb, Leader of the Opposition for Leeds City Council, commented.
“Nationally attitudes have changed and you can detect that.”
“I think it is inevitable that when any single party has been in power for that length of time that people start to get fed up of them.”
“Some of the things which went on, far too much infighting and focusing on internal things rather than outwardly focusing on the things that are affecting people everyday in their lives.”
However, the party remains faithful that these worrying opinion polls will become a thing of the past.
Tyler Reeton, National Deputy Chair for Young Conservatives said “Based on the people I’ve spoken to the levels of the support we have within membership on the younger side is actually relatively quite high.”
“Now that they’re passionate, now that they’re enthusiastic we need to give them things to do. We need to give them the campaign days, we need to give them social events.”
“When I attended conferences this year, I would probably say there’s a lot more young Conservatives there than even regular members, which was really really positive, I didn’t expect that.”
In the 2024 General Election the Conservative Party managed to win only 121 seats, and subsequently, conceded Government powers to the Labour Party.
Much work remains for Kemi Badenoch and her Conservative Party to regain the position they once had.
