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Blair leaves office with better ratings than Thatcher Print E-mail
Tuesday, 29 May 2007

Tony Blair will leave office with higher approval ratings than former Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and with a greater sense that he has remained in touch with public attitudes.

Figures from Ipsos MORI show that Blair leaves with approval ratings of -38 per cent (net satisfaction) compared to Thatcher’s outgoing approval rating of -46 per cent. Similarly 51 per cent of those surveyed thought Blair was out of touch with ordinary people when he announced his decision to leave, compared with a figure of 63 per cent for Thatcher.

The research shows that Blair’s ten years in government saw a sea change in the issues that concerned voters. In June 1997, 39 per cent of respondents said they were concerned about unemployment, a figure that had dropped to 8 per cent in April 2007 while concern about the EU and the euro dropped from 30 per to 2 per cent in the same time frame. However, public concern about immigration and race relations rose from 3 per cent to 36 per cent while worries about defence and foreign affairs rose from 2 per cent to 27 per cent in same period.

Blair leaves office trailing David Cameron by two per cent in public satisfaction and with 31 per cent of respondents saying they would definitely vote Labour if an election were held tomorrow, compared with 38 per cent who said they would vote Conservative and 20 per cent who would vote Lib Dem.

Frustratingly for Blair, who has overseen huge funding increases for the NHS and substantial improvements in many areas of the health service, a majority of respondents believe the system will get worse rather than better. However, in the field of education, the Blair era saw concern with schools and the education system in general fall from 49 per cent of respondents to 19 per cent now.
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