Boris Johnson has topped a public poll to pick leaders who are seen as having done a bad job as prime minister, pollster Ipsos found in a new survey just days before his term comes to an end next week.
The outgoing prime minister was given a poor performance rating by around 49 per cent of the British public polled to judge the performance of post-war British leaders since 1945.
The figure was worse than those for his immediate predecessors, with around 41 per cent saying Theresa May had done a bad job and 38 per cent picking David Cameron. Johnson's declared political hero, Winston Churchill, topped the survey of post-war PMs with 62 per cent saying the war-time leader had done a good job.
“Winston Churchill continues to top our list of Prime Ministers the public think did a good job in office, followed by Margaret Thatcher,” said Keiran Pedley, director of political research at Ipsos.
“Boris Johnson will be reasonably content with finishing fourth on that list but less happy about topping the list for having done a bad job,” he said.
