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Rishi Sunak’s popularity sinks to lowest since he became UK PM

LONDON: Rishi Sunak’s popularity rating sank to its lowest level since he became UK prime minister in October, highlighting the growing challenge he faces in leading his party to victory at the next general election.

The Times of India

Rishi Sunak’s approval rating hits all-time low, polling suggests

The survey showing 65% of Britons hold an unfavourable view of the PM is likely to add to Tory jitters ahead of three crunch by-elections.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak hits lowest approval rating since he quit as chancellor

Misery for Tories while Keir Starmer’s favourability score improves

The Independent UK

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Rishi Sunak must stick to £11.6bn climate commitment, say MPs

Tories, including former net zero tsar, among signatories to letter urging PM not to let down developing countries

The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s approval rating slides again as Starmer’s position improves

Ipsos found largely negative views of the Prime Minister, while impressions of the Labour leader were more mixed.

The Independent UK

It’s Dr Sunak and Mr Hyde: the existence of two Rish!s would explain a lot

Here we had one of the Sunaks announcing the very opposite on pay of what had been said previously

The Guardian - UK

Rishi’s reckoning: Labour ahead in Boris Johnson’s old Uxbridge seat and in Tory stronghold, says poll

EXCLUSIVE: Labour has eight-point lead in Boris Johnson’s ex-constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip as parties campaign on cost-of-living, NHS, crime and Ulez

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Get ready for a reprise of the Enemies of the People show: it’s all Sunak has got left

Their plans in disarray, the Tories will fight the next election pointing blame yet again at judges, clerics and ‘leftie lawyers’, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Tories 'really have given up' as 'absentee' Rishi Sunak ducks PMQs, says Labour

The Liberal Democrats also claimed Mr Sunak had 'thrown in the towel' over his poor attendance record at the weekly grilling in front of MPs

Daily Mirror

How can British politics move forward when it’s still haunted by the 2019 election?

Sunak and Starmer are trapped between the need to repudiate their past and reluctance to be honest about what went wrong, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak faces grilling by MPs on 5 pledges – can PM boast of progress?

PM will be questioned by committee six months on from big promises on economy, NHS and small boats

The Independent UK

Bringing up Sunak’s wealth is ‘class warfare’, says Tory minister who claims food bank use ‘personal decision’

Voters ‘couldn’t care less’ if the PM is billionaire, says Johnny Mercer

The Independent UK

Sunak faces questioning by senior MPs on Liaison Committee

Questions on the cost-of-living pressures and the state of public services will feature.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak faces uphill battle in achieving his five pledges

Six months after the Prime Minister asked the electorate to judge him on his aims, he risks failure in all of them.

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Fate has handed Rishi Sunak a bad hand, but he must still play boldly

Rishi Sunak is reportedly unhappy as Prime Minister: I am not surprised. He is too shiny — possibly even too idealistic— to appreciate the novelistic possibilities of decline. It seems unlikely that he will be a successful Prime Minister — 13 years are stacked against him, alongside the furies of…

Daily Mirror

'Rishi Sunak is the worst person to lead us through cost of living crisis he created'

Labour's Sir Chris Bryant, who mounted a ferocious attack on Rishi Sunak at PMQs, writes that 'it really turns my stomach when I hear Sunak lecturing my constituents about holding their nerve'

The Guardian - UK

Rish! drowns in despair as water minister finds herself way out her depth

Sunak appears to have accepted defeat but Rebecca Pow appears incapable of recognising reality

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak told he's 'given up' as PM as he struggles to explain Tory housing plans

In a fraught PMQs, Keir Starmer claimed the PM's body language and answers showed he had 'given up' and asked how many will lose their homes as interest rates soar before the Government helps them

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The Week

Is Rishi Sunak delivering on his five pledges?

Early in the new year, seeking to reset and define his premiership, Rishi Sunak laid out five key “pledges” on which he asked voters to judge him come the next election.

The Independent UK

Ben Elton blasts Rishi Sunak as a ‘mendacious narcissistic sociopath’

The comedian said the PM owed the public honesty but Mr Sunak’s interview on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg was just ‘dripping with vanity’.

Liverpool Echo

Britain is broken in every direction and we all know who to blame

The Conservatives have overseen a remarkable period of stagnation and created a country in which nothing works, writes Liam Thorp

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt tells Covid inquiry quarantining people sooner ‘might have avoided’ first lockdown – as it happened

Former health secretary says understanding important of early quarantining could have helped prevent disease spreading

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson still more popular than Rishi Sunak among 2019 Tory voters, poll reveals

PM has even lower approval rating than his predecessor despite Partygate disgrace

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer dares Rishi Sunak to call immediate general election

Labour leader says PM is more focused on Tory wrangling over honours than on economy and asylum

The Guardian - UK

Concern at plan for taxpayer-funded campaign to promote Sunak priorities

Exclusive: plan to bolt PM’s five pledges on to a range of campaigns seen as too political within Whitehall, source says

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