MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 08th September, 2022) Less than a quarter of UK citizens believe that new Prime Minister Liz Truss will do a better job than her predecessor, Boris Johnson, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by The Times newspaper.
The survey showed that only 23% of the respondents believed Truss would do a better job than Johnson, with the new prime minister having yet to succeed.
The same percentage of people suggested that Truss was likely to perform worse than Johnson, while 40% of the voters said they believed that she will do "much the same."
Meanwhile, only 18% of the respondents thought that Truss had the right policy in the energy sector, 38% disagreed with this statement and 44% said they were undecided.
Additionally, when asked who would make a better prime minister, 25% of the respondents supported Truss, while 32% preferred the leader of the UK Labour Party, Keir Starmer.
The survey was conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A YouGov poll conducted on Monday showed that half of Britons were dissatisfied with Truss having been elected as the new prime minister, while only 4% were very happy about her victory.
