Boris Johnson’s rating among Conservative Party members has plummeted by nearly 36 points in four weeks, while Rishi Sunak has emerged as the most popular candidate to succeed him.
The prime minister is now the fifth-most unpopular cabinet minister among the Tory grassroots, according to a survey published yesterday by the Conservative Home website.
Johnson’s net satisfaction rating is at 3.4, barely in positive territory and just above Robert Jenrick, the housing secretary, who had a rating of 1.3.
In a separate survey by the website a third of respondents said Sunak should succeed Johnson. No other contender gained more than 12 per cent of the vote.
Paul Goodman, the editor of Conservative Home, wrote in The Times that the chancellor was popular because he
