Could the Labour Party win a British election?

 

London, United Kingdom – “I want what you want,” British Prime Minister Liz Truss said on Wednesday in an impassioned speech at the Conservative Party conference, promising “growth, growth, growth” to fix the economy.

But the PM and the public appear to be at odds.

 

While Truss doubles down on her economic agenda – she used the word “growth” 29 times in the speech – some seem keen on not only her removal from office, but also an end to 12 successive years of Conservative Party rule.

“There are about as many people in Britain who think the Moon landings were faked as there are that think that the government is currently doing a good job,” Chris Curtis, head of political polling at market research firm Opinium, told Al Jazeera.

“They’re no longer seen as the party that’s competent, and they’re no longer seen as the party that’s good at running the economy,” Curtis said.

Following a botched mini-budget delivered late last month, opinion polls put the right-wing Conservatives at 22 percent – and possibly as much as 33 percent – behind the main opposition Labour Party in national voting intention figures.