Ed Miliband’s leadership rating drops five points in month
Discouraging findings for the Labour leader in our ComRes poll for The Independent on Sunday and Sunday Mirror tomorrow. We asked if people agreed or disagreed with this statement:
Ed Miliband is turning out to be a good leader of the Labour Party
______________Dec Jan Apr May June
Agree: 17% 22% 24% 22% 18%
Disagree: 32% 35% 38% 39% 45%
Don’t know: 50% 43% 37% 39% 37%
Net agree: -15 -13 -14 -17 -27
After our report last weekend that David Miliband still wants to be leader, we tested the popularity of alternative leaders. The don’t knows win it, but David is preferred by those who express an opinion, while Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper are not.
David Miliband would be a better Labour leader than Ed Miliband
Agree: 27% (29% of Labour voters)
Disagree: 17% (19%)
Don’t know: 57% (51%)
Ed Balls would be a better Labour leader than Ed Miliband
Agree: 10%
Disagree: 40%
Don’t know: 50%
Yvette Cooper would be a better Labour Leader than Ed Miliband
Agree: 7%
Disagree: 37%
Don’t know: 57%
The Labour Party is unelectable as the party of government as long as Ed Miliband is its leader
Agree: 33% (17% of Labour voters)
Disagree: 28% (52%)
Don’t know: 39%
Another measure of Labour’s problems is that the party trails the Government on the NHS – when Jane Merrick put these figures to him when she interviewed him for tomorrow’s Independent on Sunday, he said: “It doesn’t speak to other things I have seen.”
The NHS would be safer under Labour than under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition
Agree: 34%
Disagree:37%
Don’t know: 30%
Voting intention
Labour is still level-pegging with the Conservatives:
Con 37% (-1)
Lab 37% (-2)
Lib Dem 11% (-)
Others 15% (+3)
Change since Independent on Sunday/Sunday Mirror ComRes online poll published 15 May.
And the Prime Minister’s rating has hardly changed:
David Cameron is turning out to be a good Prime Minister
______________Dec Jan Apr May June
Agree: 38% 38% 37% 39% 37%
Disagree: 41% 43% 46% 43% 44%
Don’t know: 21% 19% 17% 18% 19%
Nick Clegg
Nick Clegg is turning out to be a good leader of the Liberal Democrats
______________Dec Jan Apr May June
Agree: 26% 28% 24% 21% 20% (52% of Lib Dem voters)
Disagree: 49% 49% 55% 56% 57%
Don’t know: 25% 23% 21% 24% 23%
Nick Clegg deserves some credit for making the Conservatives think again about their NHS changes
__________May June
Agree: 49% 49%
Disagree: 26% 27%
Don’t know: 25% 24%
The Liberal Democrats would be more popular if they replaced Nick Clegg as leader
Agree: 25%
Disagree: 34%
Don’t know: 40%
Spending cuts
The Government is cutting public spending in a way that is fair to every section of society
___________Nov Dec Feb June
Agree 32% 30% 25% 25%
Disagree 52% 53% 59% 60%
I expect to be worse off personally as a result of the spending cuts
___________Nov Dec Feb June
Agree 65% 66% 69% 67%
Disagree 16% 16% 16% 16%
ComRes interviewed 2,008 GB adults online on 15 and 16 June 2011. Data were weighted to be representative of all adults and by past vote recall. ComRes is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules. Full tables at ComRes.
Photograph: Justin Sutcliffe for The Independent on Sunday
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