Following Rishi Sunak’s closing speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester on Wednesday 5th of October, we polled a nationally representative sample of 2,019, and a sample of 437 Conservative Party Members, for Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge on Sky News.

Suella Braverman’s Speech

Q1. How would you rate Suella Braverman’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference on Tuesday?

National

1 – Very poor: 20% (54% among watchers/listeners)
2: 2% (5.5%)
3: 3.5% (9.5%)
4: 3.5% (9.5%)
5: Excellent:  8% (21.5%)
Didn’t watch/listen: 63%
Average: 2.4/5

Conservative Party Members

1 – Very poor: 6% (8% among watchers/listeners)
2: 5% (7%)
3: 9% (12.5%)
4: 16% (22%)
5 – Excellent:  37% (50.5%)
Didn’t watch/listen: 27%
Average: 2.9/5

National poll results / Conservative Party Members poll results

Rishi Sunak’s Speech

Q2. How would you rate Rishi Sunak’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference yesterday?

National

1 – Very poor: 18%  (46% among watchers/listeners)
2: 5% (13%)
3: 7% (18%)
4: 5% (13%)
5 – Excellent:  4% (10%)
Didn’t watch/listen: 61%
Average: 2.3/5

Conservative Party Members

1 – Very poor: 4%  (5.5% among watchers/listeners)
2: 4% (5.5%)
3: 12% (16%)
4: 20% (26.5%)
5 – Excellent:  34% (45.5%)
Didn’t watch/listen: 25%
Average: 3/5

National poll results / Conservative Party Members poll results

Scrapping HS2 Birmingham to Manchester

Q3. In your view, is scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2 and diverting £36 Billion to local rail projects the correct decision for the country?

National

Yes: 34%
No: 27%
I don’t know: 39%

Conservative Party Members

Yes: 66%
No: 18%
I don’t know: 16%

National poll results / Conservative Party Members poll results

Smoking

Q4. Rishi Sunak has announced that he will “raise the smoking age by one year, every year – that means a 14- year-old today will never be legally sold a cigarette”. To what extend do you agree or disagree with this policy?

National

Agree: 61% (40% Strongly)
Disagree: 16% (7% Strongly)
Neither: 22%

Conservative Party Members

Agree: 81% (62% Strongly)
Disagree: 12% (6% Strongly)
Neither: 7%

National poll results / Conservative Party Members poll results

Preferred leader

Conservative Party Members

Q5. Who would you prefer to be the leader of the Conservative Party?

Kemi Badenoch	4%
James Cleverly	1%
Nigel Farage	13%
Penny Mordaunt	16%
Priti Patel	2%
Rishi Sunak	50%
Liz Truss	2%
Tom Tugendhat	3%
Other	8%

Conservative Party Members poll results

Rishi Sunak’s Performance

Q6. Do you think Rishi Sunak is doing well, or badly, in his job as Prime Minister?

National

Well: 18% (4% Very)
Badly: 48% (29% Very)
Neither 21%
I don’t know: 13%

National poll results

About the Survey

Find Out Now interviewed 3,101 GB adults from 2023-10-04 to 2023-10-05, and produced a sample of 2,019 respondents which is nationally representative by: Gender, Age, Social Class, Region, Brexit Vote, and 2019 General Election.

Find Out Now also interviewed 437 Conservative Party members from 2023-10-04 to 2023-10-05 and weighted the results by age, gender, social grade and region.

Find Out Now are members of the British Polling Council and Market Research Society Company Partners, and abide by their rules.