Liz Truss has had a terrible start as prime minister, to judge from opinion polls that have recorded huge leads for Labour over the Conservatives since she entered Downing Street.
Labour has secured leads of 30 percentage points or more in four polls since chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini”-Budget” involving £45bn of unfunded tax cuts sparked turmoil on financial markets.
But Truss’s position is worse than the headline voting intention data suggest: there appears to be little public appetite for the policies she is pursuing to achieve higher economic growth, as well as a lack of trust in her delivering the agenda, according to a Financial Times analysis.