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Pat McFadden says there is ‘long history’ of Labour leaders backing Margaret Thatcher’s success as a ‘conviction politician’Rishi Sunak is seen as the worst-performing cabinet minister by Conservative party members, a survey suggests. The ConservativeHome website has a panel of Tory members that it consults every month and its latest survey results show Sunak at a new low.ConservativeHome measures net satisfaction ratings and this month Sunak’s ratings are the lowest for any member of cabinet. In their write-up Paul Goodman and Henry Hill say:The biggest news is that Rishi Sunak, whose ratings have yo-yoed around during the past few months, hits his lowest trough yet in the table. Last month, in our first survey since the Conservative party conference, he was on 7.1 points and ninth from bottom. The month before, in the wake of his net zero speech, he was up to 26 points and eighth. Three months ago, he was in the red on -2.7.Minus 25.4 is a dire rating – though not as lamentable as the tooth-grindingly terrible -51.2 and -53.1 scores racked up by Theresa May and Philip Hammond in April 2019, let alone Chris Grayling’s record -71.6 score in the same poll. The fact is that during the last month every good piece of news for the government has been followed by bad. Continue reading...