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Liz Truss suffers poll blow as Brexit voters help hand Starmer's Labour 22 point lead
Liz Truss has suffered a new blow in her bid to win over the country after an exclusive poll for the Express revealed that the Tories have fallen further behind in the polls after a torrid conference in Birmingham.


The Techne UK tracker poll for Express.co.uk has shown that the Conservatives are now 22 points behind Labour, the worst the party has been since the Tony Blair Government.

According to the poll, Labour are now on 48 percent and the Tories at 26 percent, meaning that Sir Keir Starmer’s lead has actually grown by two percent in the last week.

Last week’s poll saw a dramatic collapse in Tory support with the gap widening from eight to 20 points.

But things have got worse after Ms Truss was forced into a humiliating U-turn over her plans to scrap the top income tax rate of 45p for high earners.

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(..) Since officially leaving the EU in 2021, Brexiteers have been keen to point to the benefits of Brexit, including slashing the bloc’s red tape legislation and in striking new trade deals. However, an leading expert has noted top Tories and Brexiteers have changed their tune from backing Brexit fully to admitting issues with leaving the bloc.
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Chris Grey, Emeritus Professor of Organisation Studies at Royal Holloway and ex-Professor at Cambridge University, said “Brexiteers are losing the post-Brexit narrative”.

He noted an “‘admission-yet-denial’ phenomenon” in Brexiteers, where ministers acknowledge issues with leaving the EU but also point to other factors such as Covid and the Ukraine war.

Mr Grey cited Jacob Rees Mogg, Lord David Frost and Rishi Sunak’s recent comments, where the Chancellor said damage done by Brexit to trade with the EU was “inevitable” in March.

Mr Mogg also said in May customs and SPS checks scheduled to be phased in from July this year will be delayed for the fourth time, calling it an “act of self harm”.

Lord Frost has repeatedly denounced the Northern Irish Protocol as unworkable, despite he and Boris Johnson agreeing to replace Theresa May’s backstop with it.

An expert has claimed Leavers ‘admit leaving the EU was a mistake’

Chris Grey noted Sunak saying post-Brexit trade falling was ‘inevitable’

Writing for his blog ‘Brexit and Beyond’, Mr Grey noted Brexiteers “implicitly or explicitly admit to the failures of the Brexit they agreed or supported, whilst denying or ignoring that the cause is the Brexit they agreed or supported”.

The expert also noted another argument for backing Brexit, which “takes the form of claiming Brexit to have been a success compared with predictions of the damage it would cause”.

He then added: “What is striking is how convoluted some of these arguments are, and how defensive.

“If Brexit had been even half as successful as it was claimed it was going to be then, by now, you’d expect that to be easily demonstrable and increasingly self-evident even to those who had formerly doubted, or at least to a growing number of them.

“You would also expect a growing self-confidence from Brexiters so that they would feel no need to jibe – as (Tim) Montgomery does – at “remoaners”. The magnanimity of victory, even though it eluded them in 2016, would by now be theirs.

“There would be clear signs of Brexit at least moving towards meeting the test for its success set by Frost himself, namely that by 2031 ‘nobody is questioning Brexit. It was self-evidently the right thing to do.’” (..)

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