Conservative Party members are like most other voters in at least one respect: namely, that they want Ministers to deliver. Chris Heaton-Harris has helped to bring about the return of the Democratic Unionist Party to Stormont – and so his rating rises from 4.4 points and eleventh from bottom last month to 36.6 points and fourth from top this.
Otherwise, most scores are much the same as last month, with many of them down even from its woeful levels. Kemi Badenoch is still top, but her score is down from 63.9 to 58.8, little more than a margin of error change. Ditto Johnny Mercer from joint second on 47.5 to third on 41.5. Penny Mordaunt was joint second last month and sole second this month on an unchanged score of 47.5. Alex Chalk’s rating is up from 26.0 and eleventh to 29.4 and fifth.
Eight Cabinet members were in negative ratings last time round and eight are so again this time – Mark Harper slipping in and David Cameron clambering out. Rishi Sunak was minus 26.5 last month and is minus 18.4 since. He has now been in the red for the last three months. Michael Tomlinson continues to feel the wrath of the panel for the failures of the immigration system.