Liz Truss is now as unpopular with voters as Boris Johnson when he was ousted, says veteran pollster.
The Labour Party are "very clearly the favourites" to form the next government, pollster Sir John Curtice has told Tory activists in Birmingham.
"The truth is, whatever the merits of Liz Truss's package, it has resulted in very serious electoral damage to the Conservatives as an institution and to this new leader," he told the Demos fringe meeting. In the event of a hung Parliament, opposition parties would be unlikely to prop up a minority Tory administration, he suggested, which made Labour clear favourites to gain power.
He said the party's MPs had to start communicating with voters in a language they understood, and talking about things which mattered to them. "People are feeling poorer," she added, and they don't think the solutions Liz Truss has come up with "make any sense". "Thatcher was always a strong leader," she told the meeting, "but she was of the people, she spoke in their language".
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