Why few voters like Sunak

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🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

New polling from JL Partners shows how Rishi Sunak has changed, in the eyes of the public. They found that while Sunak was initially seen as a direct ‘breath of fresh air’, he is now frequently described as ‘out of touch’, ‘spineless’ and ‘false’.

To discuss what went wrong for the PM, James Heale and Katy Balls are joined by James Johnson, the co-founder of JL Partners.

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0:15.7	Hello and welcome to the special Saturday edition of Coffey House Shots.
0:23.2	I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by Katie Walsh from The Spectator and James Johnson of
0:27.2	JL partners.
0:28.2	Now today we're talking about Ritchie's Yinac's image which I think Katie it's been fair to say has been on a bit of an evolution
0:33.8	talk us about how Ritchie soon image has changed we first saw him really come on
0:38.1	the scene in 2020 during COVID with the furlow scheme but over the last four years
0:42.1	or so it's gone up and down hasn't it?
0:44.4	It has been a roller coaster for Ritchie Scenic but not that much going up and down.
0:48.9	It's almost up and then on this downward trajectory unfortunately for Rishi Scunak.
0:53.6	I think that when he was Chancellor you saw him have this peak popularity,
0:59.1	which at times I think riled some of his cabinet colleagues because where people like Matt Hancock
1:05.3	perhaps for good reason if we look at the COVID inquiry were being heavily
1:08.4	criticized you had Rishi Sunak who was very popular the public didn't really know who he was before he became
1:14.4	a chance that the pandemic happened very soon after he entered number 11 and
1:18.7	therefore lots of the first encounter with voters on R Rishi Sunak was this man who was giving
1:26.0	away loads of money through the Furlow scheme.
1:30.0	Then I think you had, obviously the non-domra-ra-I think that was a big dent at the time to Rishiswunax how he was seen by
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