right and needs to change. i m sure you ve seen the opinion polls over the weekend, as i have roughly three quarters of people think that borisjohnson broke lockdown rules. only 8% not. 13% think that he s telling the truth, 64% convinced he s not. even people inside your own party, it seems, a preponderance of them believing that boris johnson should resign. these are opinion polls, which, for you as a politician, matter, don t they? well, i ve been, like most of my colleagues, been in my constituency friday and this weekend and i ve spoken to party members, people who ve been loyal party members and activists for many years, and i would say, by far, the clear view that i ve had from them is, we should give him, the prime minister, the benefit of the doubt until we see what s in sue gray s report. really? hm. amazing that your constituency flies in the face of the polling evidence from across the country. well, i know other colleagues have had similar feedback as well and i don t kn
members and activists for many years, and i would say, by far, the clear view that i ve had from them is, we should give him, the prime minister, the benefit of the doubt until we see what s in sue gray s report. really? hm. amazing that your constituency flies in the face of the polling evidence from across the country. well, i know other colleagues have had similar feedback as well and i don t know the sample to that polling, whether that is actual party members orjust people who claim to be registered, claim to be voters who vote conservative. people are angry and people want to know what s going on, and the prime minister acknowledged that in his statement in the house, that regardless of what may have been thought or said at the time of that party in the garden, you cannot explain it away. you cannot say that it was justifiable. it was clearly wrong, it should never have happened, and so people are rightly angry about that and want to know, i think, what the prime minister s going
want to submit letters of no confidence in him to the 1922 committee. do you think, at this stage, they want to get rid of him, frankly, and try their luck with a new leader? orwill they frankly, and try their luck with a new leader? or will they sit tight? well, they have got to be looking at the opinion polls, which show that his writings for trustworthiness, for honesty are very poor. they want great to start with, it has to be said. the public seems to have made up said. the public seems to have made up their minds about him. now, of course, the public sometimes changes its mind, but i think we are getting into the territory where, if you like, the impressions of boris johnson now are baked in, and there won t be very much he can do about it. of course, he is the ultimate teflon houdini, he has got out of these scrapes before, he has got a great record in terms of winning elections, both as mayor of london and prime minister, but i have to set that against polling evidence on his p
in one direction. but hang on. i know your economic views are in a certain place, perfectly legitimately, but there might be lots of people who think, actually, do you know what? i ve been paying loads of tax, i m quite happy about the idea of a tax cut. that does give me some hope that when times are tough, actually, i m going to get a bit more of my money back. and he s taking some money off when i go to fill up at the pump. so, you know, that will be appealing to many people listening to it. there is a bit of a contrast - as well between actually some of the polling evidence i in the last 24 hours that people like the measures, - and these very bad front pages clearly that he got, and in a sense it si because he s sort of, - in the westminster world not really pleasing anyone, - because he is having to put up taxes, so the right wing papers don t like that, l and he s not really doingi what the left wing papers wanted on benefits and helping with the cost of living, so he s kind of
one that that we should underestimate. howard: ben, what do you make of republican congressman dan crenshaw saying on fox & friends that some on the right are repeating putin s talking points and, unfortunately, it gives the left something to latch on to which is an inaccurate description of how the right feels. i do think there is a very slim faction of people who do repeat a lot of these things and do soar irresponsibly. but i do think that is a very small number. and i think when you have a high level of single digits that show up many polling evidence of the in polling evidence of the like that people say we re doing too much to support ukraine, that certainly exists on the right, and there is a fringe on the left as well that, you know, definitely makes the same mistake. but they are the fringes, and we shouldn t pretend that they re not. howard: leslie, 20 seconds left right now. i would agree with ben, they re fringes. the problem is who has the bigger platform whether i