Rishi Sunak mocked as poll shows he is ‘more unpopular than Boris Johnson’

In prime minister’s questions today, the final session before winter recess, Labour MP Sir Chris Bryant sought to the corner the prime minister over a range of perceived areas of wrongdoing.

Sir Chris said: “What’s worse? Losing your WhatsApp messages as a tech bro. Losing £11.8 billion to fraud as chancellor. Presiding over the biggest fall in living standards in our history. Or desperately clinging on to power when you become even more unpopular than Boris Johnson?”.

It comes as new polling from YouGov shows 70 per cent of Britons have an unfavourable view of the PM, with just 21 per cent having a favourable view.

It means Sunak is on his lowest ever net favourability score of -49 – a 10-point drop from late November.

The new figures mean Sunak’s overall net favourability score is comparable with Boris Johnson’s during his final months in office.

Johnson’s net favourability score was -46 immediately after he resigned. However, Sunak is beating Liz Truss on this measure, her score dropped to minus 70 in her final days in office.

Rishi Sunak responded to Sir Chris’ question: “What matters to me is delivering for the British people”.

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