‘Easier target’ John Curtice points out major flaw with frontrunners to replace Boris
Boris exit could leave Labour with an ‘easy target’ says Curtice
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The polling guru told George Galloway’s MOAT talk show on RT that Boris Johnson’s replacement as Prime Minister would likely not share the Conservative leader’s “big spending” style. Professor Curtice warned that a less free-spending Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss would find themselves easier targets for the Labour Party.
Professor Curtice told RT: “Previous Prime Ministers have been in trouble, essentially because of arguments about policy, all of this has essentially happened because of arguments about Boris Johnson’s behaviour.
“So it’s very, very much about his personality, and the question the Conservative Party have to ask themselves is, however effective a vote-winner he was in the past, is he now damaged goods and therefore needs to be returned to sender?
“That’s the question they have to ask themselves if they do come to that conclusion, and the truth is, I think they will find themselves having to get rid of him.
“And then we will get into a new political ball game.”
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He continued: “We will have somebody either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss, who certainly I think will not be as willing to be as interventionist as far as Boris Johnson was.
“He isn’t a traditional Tory, at least in certain respects he’s something of a big spender.
“I think may actually present the Labour Party with a rather easier target to attack.
“The Labour Party would like politics to go back to an argument between right and left.”
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He added: “Quite difficult to do that, when you’re presumably right-wing opponents are led by a Prime Minister, whose instincts are rather heavily on the side of the interventionists.”
Mr Johnson apologised last Wednesday for attending a “bring your own booze” party in the Downing Street garden in May 2020, when the rest of the country was in lockdown.
The PM insisted he thought the party was work-related but said he recognised “with hindsight I should have sent everyone back inside”.
He said an inquiry headed by senior official Sue Gray was examining the situation but accepted “there were things we simply did not get right and I must take responsibility”.
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The scandal prompted furious Tory MPs to call for the Prime Minister to resign.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss are currently the favourites to replace the Prime Minister should a leadership election be held.
Meanwhile, Labour has opened up a 10-point lead over the Conservatives.
Labour has risen to its largest predicted vote share in almost a decade.
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