EXCLUSIVE: What Brits REALLY Think

The big parties, top issues, the small boats, the ECHR, and more

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What do the British people really think about the two big parties? What’s going to be the MOST important issue for them when deciding how to vote at the looming general election? Who do they trust to solve the most pressing problems facing the country —like the intensifying small boats fiasco on the southern border? And to what extent, if at all, would they support what is rumoured to be about to happen in Westminster —Rishi Sunak gearing up to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)?

These are all enormous questions with enormous implications for Britain’s 2024 general election. So, this week, for the Patrick Christys Show on GB News, I put all these questions to a nationally representative sample of nearly 2,000 voters. Drawing on the same data that’s used by several other pollsters, and which I’ve used to advise countless MPs, advisers, leaders, and companies, I asked ordinary voters how they are thinking and feeling about these crunch issues.

The results really are striking —they not only tell us what’s about to unfold at the 2024 election but point to deeper problems facing our democracy and political class, from the sheer scale of distrust and disillusionment on some issues to the public appetite for a very different kind of politics.

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