Who do you trust with the economy?
Conservative vs. Labour with the Britain Elects poll tracker
This is perhaps the most important tracker of them all. Party popularity counts for little if you are not trusted to keep the country’s lights on. Ed Miliband learnt that to great disaster in 2015.
But it’s not the be all and end all, either. Theresa May’s own advantage on the subject over Jeremy Corbyn betrayed an enthusiasm gap between her supporters and Labour supporters.
Only after the Liz Truss mini-budget of 2022 did the likelihood of a Labour victory at the next election move from likely to almost certain. Only when voters stopped viewing the Conservatives as competent on the economy did the overwhelming majority of voters regard the next election as a “change election.”
To the voters the economy is a byword for the basics. Which is why this tracker exists. And why leading on it is, in normal circumstances, so fundamental.
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And yet the people (or at least 31% of those qualified to vote) voted for Brexit. A shrinking of our economy and status in the world that came with a cast iron guarantee to make us poorer, have higher unemployment, fewer opportunities, remove our freedom of movement in our continent and our children’s future less secure in a dangerous world. So it isn’t always “It’s the economy, stupid” if you have a charismatic politician selling snake oil.