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After PM’s grilling on Mumsnet, could his waning support among female voters be his undoing?
“Why should we believe anything you say when it’s been proved you’re a habitual liar?” That was the first question for Boris Johnson in a grilling from Mumsnet users this week. The forum’s founder, Justine Roberts, who had the job of posing users’ questions to the prime minister, mused afterwards that he might have a “woman problem”.
Polling certainly appears to bear that out: in YouGov’s latest snapshot of voting intentions, Johnson trailed Keir Starmer by six percentage points as best prime minister choice among men, and by 12 points (21% to 33%) among women. When it came to voting intentions, Labour led the Tories by just one point among men and by 16 points (45% to 29%) among women.
