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Overwhelming 62% of voters want Theresa May to stand down as PM before next general election as popularity hits all time low

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THERESA May popularity has been badly dented by her “soft” Brexit blueprint, a poll reveals today.

An overwhelming 62 of voters think she should stand down as PM before the next general election.

 Theresa May's popularity has sunk to an all time low
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Theresa May's popularity has sunk to an all time lowCredit: Getty Images - Getty

More than a third - 36 per cent – say she should go immediately.

Mrs May’s personal rating has sunk to a new low, with even Tory voters convinced her time is up.

The devastating verdict on her Brexit plan is delivered in a Deltapoll survey for The Sun on Sunday.

More than half of voters – 53 per cent – say her soft Brexit plan is a betrayal of the referendum decision to leave the EU or an ill thought-out compromise that will please nobody.

 Jacob Rees-Mogg says Mrs May's popularity will bounce back if she keeps her promises
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Jacob Rees-Mogg says Mrs May's popularity will bounce back if she keeps her promisesCredit: Getty - Contributor

Barely one person in 14 – seven per cent - believes the Chequers deal is the best possible Brexit solution.

The poll present a catalogue of misery for the PM, with 62 per cent of all voters and 44 per cent of Tories saying she is doing a bad job.

Many believe she should take a much tougher line with Brussels in her negotiations for an exit deal.

One in five say she should go back to the drawing board and come up with a more acceptable plan by Brexit date of March 29 next year.

 Two in five Tories reckon the PM is doing a poor job
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Two in five Tories reckon the PM is doing a poor jobCredit: Getty Images - Getty

A quarter of voters say she should refused to make any more concessions with the EU and leave without a Brexit deal if necessary.

Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said last night: “This poll demonstrates, unsurprisingly, that voters have seen through the surrender paper.

“Theresa May’s popularity will undoubtedly bounce back if she went back to what she promised in her Mansion House speech in March.”

Former Cabinet minister John Redwood added: “Voters are clearly not impressed with the Brexit proposal and are asking why should we pay £39billion for that?”

 Boris Johnson is currently top choice for PM, according to poll
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Boris Johnson is currently top choice for PM, according to pollCredit: AFP or licensors

Only six per cent would be prepared to delay Brexit beyond next March to give the PM time to come up with a more acceptable plan.

Four in ten say they would be prepared to crash out of the EU without a deal.

Deltapoll boss Martin Boon said: “If Theresa May thought the Cabinet away day would solve Brexit conundrums and all other related issues, she should look away now.”

Boris Johnson, who quit as Foreign Secretary in protest over the plan, is overwhelmingly the most popular choice to replace Mrs May.

He is the choice of 21 per cent of voters, well ahead of the second most favoured, Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson, who polled eight per cent.

Labour have surged into a five-point lead over the Tories in our Deltapoll survey.
It puts them on 42 per cent, with Theresa May’s party at 37.

The Sun Says

THERESA May probably thinks she can get the Brexit deal through Parliament.

She might even think that, eventually, she will get it through Brussels in some form. But one group seem determined to punish her for fudging Brexit: the voters.
As our poll reveals today, 53 per cent hate the White Paper.

The anger among many Leave voters — who think they are being stitched up ­— is palpable. Her Chequers proposal shows she has sided with Remainers in the Treasury and Civil Service, who are determined to stop any short-term shock of exiting the bloc, and so have convinced the PM to blur her “red lines”.

Instead, Mrs May should have viewed Brexit as a golden chance for Britain to become a buccaneering, free-trading, independent nation.

 

One able to set its own laws and control its borders.

 

The idea of taking diktats from European courts, having no border control, and being unable to strike free trade deals — while paying Brussels £39billion — is not the Brexit people voted for.

Mrs May should look at our poll today to see the bloody nose the Tories could be dealt at the next General Election.

Unless she starts being honest with the country, then she will cause further disillusionment among voters, potentially opening the door to Jeremy Corbyn…

Ushering in Britain’s first Marxist PM should not be a legacy Mrs May wants.

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